Donor Dress Rehearsals

Swan Lake 

Dress Rehearsal
Friday, March 7

Lead philanthropic support for Swan Lake is provided by The Walter Carsen New Creations Fund,  Richard M. Ivey, C.C., an anonymous friend of the National Ballet, The Lawrence Schafer Foundation, Susan Scace & Arthur Scace, C.M., K.C., Pamela and Paul Austin and The P. Austin Family Foundation with generous underwriting from The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation, Gail Drummond & Bob Dorrance, Nancy Pencer, Sandra Pitblado, C.M. & Jim Pitblado, C.M., Gretchen Ross & Donald Ross, O.C., Anne-Marie Canning, Anna McCowan-Johnson & Donald K. Johnson, O.C., Tim & Frances Price and The Volunteer Committee of The National Ballet of Canada. Additional support with thanks to Kevin Garland & Roger Garland, C.M., Ann McCullagh Hogarth and The Producers’ Circle (2022).

Directed and Staged by:
Karen Kain, C.C., LL.D., D.Litt., O.Ont.

Choreography:
Karen Kain, Christopher Stowell and Robert Binet after Erik Bruhn, Lev Ivanov and Marius Petipa

Music:
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Set, Property and Costume Design:
Gabriela Týlešová

Lighting Designer:
Bonnie Beecher

Projection Designer:
Sean Nieuwenhuis

Design Associate, Wardrobe:
Marjory Fielding

Design Assistant, Wardrobe:
Allie Marshall

Design Associate, Set & Properties:
Joshua Quinlan

Stage Managers:
Jeff Morris and Alexandria Wommack

Assistant Stage Manager:
Liliane Stilwell

Rehearsal Director, Principal Coaches:
Rex Harrington, O.C., D.Litt and Xiao Nan Yu

Rehearsal Directors:
Stephanie Hutchison and Lise-Marie Jourdain

World Premiere: The National Ballet of Canada, Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, June 10, 2022

Conductor
David Briskin, Music Director and Principal Conductor or Julian Pelicano, Conductor

The National Ballet of Canada Orchestra

Casting

Odette/Odile
Genevieve Penn Nabity

Siegfried
Ben Rudisin

Rothbart
Peng-Fei Jiang

Benno, Siegfried’s closest friend 
Donald Thom

Celia, Siegfried’s sister
Miyoko Koyasu

Elizabeth, Siegfried’s sister
Brenna Flaherty

Prologue – A Lakeside Clearing

Odette's Friends
Liya Fan, Ana Zamora and Karen Laldjising

Act I – The Palace Courtyard

Siegfried’s Friends
Kota Sato, Isaac Wright, Noah Parets, Shaakir Muhammad, Keaton Leier, Alexander Skinner, Larkin Miller 

Nia Hirano, Selene Guerrero-Trujillo, Ayano Hanieshi, Hannah Galway, Erica Lall

Siegfried’s Tutor
Peter Ottmann†

The Queen, Siegfried’s Mother
Stephanie Hutchison†  

The Queen’s Confidante
Sophie Letendre†

The Master of the Hunt
Konstantin Tkachuk  

The Queen’s Hunting Party
Artists of the Ballet^

Act II – At the Lakeside

Women
Artists of the Ballet^#

Leading Women
Jeannine Haller, Monika Haczkiewicz, Alexandra MacDonald, Calley Skalnik

Young Women
Hannah Galway, Ayano Haneishi, Miyoko Koyasu, Brenna Flaherty

Act III – The Palace Ballroom

Guests the Masquerade
Artists of the Ballet^# 

The Russian Dance
Calley Skalnik

with
Isabella Kinch and Clare Peterson 

The Neopolitan Dance
Hannah Galway 

with
Noah Parets and David Preciado 

The Spanish Dance
Selene Guerrero-Trujillo

with
Arielle Miralles, Isabelle Bratt, Trygve Cumpston, Larkin Miller

Act IV – At the Lakeside

Women
Artists of the Ballet^# 

 † Guest Artist
^ Includes additional dancers Soo Ah Kang, Lauren Ostrander, Demi Trezona and Anastasiia Zaberezhna appearing  by kind permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association
# Includes additional dancers Reine Bourassa, Lila Jacobs, Mayako Setta and Lina Yamaki appearing by kind permission of Canadian Actors’ Equity Association and Margaret Tracey, Artistic Director of Canada’s National Ballet School

All Casting Subject to Change.

Artists of the Ballet in Swan Lake. Photo by Karolina Kuras.