Sunday, August 16, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
Sigmund Stern Grove, 19th Ave. & Sloat, San Francisco

San Francisco Ballet returns to Stern Grove Festival with artists of the Company performing a selection of works from their current repertory. San Francisco Ballet is America’s oldest professional ballet company, renowned for its incomparable level of innovation and exuberance that has sustained its standing as one of the premier ballet companies in America.

The performance at Stern Grove Festival features:

ON A THEME OF PAGANINI
Choreography by: Helgi Tomasson
Conductor: Martin West
Piano: Roy Bogas
Frances Chung, Pascal Molat, Jaime Garcia Castilla, Maria Kochetkova, Davit Karapetyan

INTERMISSION

SWAN LAKE, ACT II
Choreography by: Helgi Tomasson
Conductor: Martin West
Violin: Franklyn D’Antonio
Cello: Miriam Perkoff
Odette: Vanessa Zahorian
Prince Siegfried: Ruben Martin Cintas
Von Rothbart: Anthony Spaulding

INTERMISSION

STRAVINSKY VIOLIN CONCERTO
Choreography by: George Balanchine
Conductor: Martin West
Violin: Franklyn D'Antonio
Aria I: Sarah Van Patten, Pierre-François Vilanoba
Aria II: Katita Waldo, Ruben Martin

Casting is subject to change.