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Metropolitan Classical Ballet launches its 2007-2008 season with its Fall Repertory performance.

The program will open with Album for the Young, choreographed by Paul Mejia and set to music by Lowell Liebermann, one of today’s most frequently performed and commissioned composers. This dance premiered to great acclaim in 2005. Twenty-three year-old Russian born pianist Gleb Ivanov, will play the piano accompaniment for the ballet.

Set to Alexander Scriabin’s romantic “Sonata No. 3 in F# minor, Op. 23”, the Scriabin Sonata is a passionate ballet choreographed by Paul Mejia for one woman, danced by Olga Pavlova, and a corps of men. It was first performed for the Company in 1999.

Carmen Suite, set to the music of Georges Bizet and Rodion Shchedrin, will close the performance. This piece features choreography by Alberto Alonso and staging by Alexander Vetrov. Both the arrangement and the choreography for Carmen Suite were created especially for the great Soviet ballerina, Maya Plisetskaya, former soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet Theatre. Guest dancer, Marianna Ryzhkina, principal dancer with the Bolshoi since 1989, will perform the title role. Ms. Ryzhkina bears the prestigious title Honored Artist of Russia.

Location: Bass Hall

Admission: $10.00 – $38.00