Big news! After 5 challenging and successful years at New York City Ballet, I’ve just accepted a position across the plaza at The Metropolitan Opera!
I’m going to be their Staff Assistant Lighting Designer, assisting the resident lighting designer and guest designers on more than twenty operas across a thirty-three week season. It should be an incredible experience. I start prep there on July 29.
Another year, another trip to Saratoga with New York City Ballet. I’ll be there from June 29 through July 14 for two weeks of performances.
Coming up next is NYC Ballet’s spring Season, which features a revival of “River of Light” which has not been seen since before I started working at NYCB. It includes several lighting effects that are essentially part of the choreography but were created with equipment that is no longer available. Remounting it should be a unique but interesting challenge.
Tomorrow I’m heading to Washington, D.C. for another visit with the ballet to the Kennedy Center. From there, we’ll fly directly to Copenhagen for a week of performances at the Copenhagen Opera House. I’ve never been to Scandinavia before so I am very excited about this tour.
This week I’ll be assisting Alan Adelman on a semi-staged production of the opera A Streetcar Named Desire at Carnegie Hall, starring Renée Fleming. I’m excited both to work with Alan and to work at Carnegie Hall!
We’ve closed another year of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker, so it’s time to move on to our winter season. Featured this year is a two-week run of Peter Martins’ Sleeping Beauty, always a challenging but fun project.
Tomorrow begins prep for New York City Ballet’s fall season. It will include a new ballet by Justin Peck to the music of Sufjan Stevens, which looks like it will be pretty neat.
Today begins the ballet’s time at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center, an annual visit that is always a great experience. I’ll be back in New York July 23rd and available for work through the end of August.
I’m back from my honeymoon and on the train to Washington, D.C. where the NYC Ballet will be performing next week. We visit every year and it’s always a great experience. I’m looking forward to it. When we get back to New York we load in our spring season.
I’m now in Ludwigshafen, loading in the first of NYC Ballet’s two stops here in Germany. Next week we head to Baden-Baden (Bill Clinton said it “is so nice they had to name it twice”).
