The Four Seasons is a ballet choreographed by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani (1855), I Lombardi (1843), and Il Trovatore (1853). The premiere took place on 18 January 1979 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery and costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton.
Original cast
Lucinda Murdoch Eliana Dipietro Elli Trimble Stephanie Saland Maria Calegari Patricia McBride David Richardson Joseph Duell
Peter Frame Francis Sackett Daniel Duell Bart Cook Mikhail Baryshnikov Jean-Pierre Frohlich Gerard Ebitz
Other companies Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, premiered April 13, 2007 along with The Concert.
References
Playbill, NYCB, Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Repertory Week, NYCB, Spring Season, 2008 repertory, week 1
Articles NY Times, Jack Anderson, January 14, 1979
Reviews
NY Times, Alastair Macaulay, January 21, 2008
NY Times, Jack Anderson, June 4, 1985 NY Times, Anna Kisselgoff, January 20, 1979