Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 days ago
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, ABT's Dance Historian
This installment of our 2025 Summer season BEHIND THE BALLET dives into SYLVIA. In this Arcadian love story, set in mythical Greece amid a realm of otherworldly creatures and verdant forests, the deity Eros intervenes to unite the nymph Sylvia with the lovelorn shepherd Aminta. The splendid score by LĂ©o Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed at the time, he would never have composed Swan Lake!
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, a series of talks with ABT's Dance Historian, renowned ballet lecturer, and New York Times #1 best-selling author. Each BEHIND THE BALLET provides a deep dive into the 2025 Summer season ballets: SWAN LAKE, Wayne McGregor's WOOLF WORKS, GISELLE, THE WINTER'S TALE, and SYLVIA.
Purchase your tickets for SYLVIA at the Metropolitan Opera House from July 8–12.
🎟 bit.ly/ABTMet25_SBTB
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, ABT's Dance Historian
This installment of our 2025 Summer season BEHIND THE BALLET dives into SYLVIA. In this Arcadian love story, set in mythical Greece amid a realm of otherworldly creatures and verdant forests, the deity Eros intervenes to unite the nymph Sylvia with the lovelorn shepherd Aminta. The splendid score by LĂ©o Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed at the time, he would never have composed Swan Lake!
BEHIND THE BALLET WITH ELIZABETH KAYE, a series of talks with ABT's Dance Historian, renowned ballet lecturer, and New York Times #1 best-selling author. Each BEHIND THE BALLET provides a deep dive into the 2025 Summer season ballets: SWAN LAKE, Wayne McGregor's WOOLF WORKS, GISELLE, THE WINTER'S TALE, and SYLVIA.
Purchase your tickets for SYLVIA at the Metropolitan Opera House from July 8–12.
🎟 bit.ly/ABTMet25_SBTB
