By James Foritano Boston, MA - “Every piece has its own flavor, and they’re all good,” pronounced Madeleine as we assembled our gloves and hats and scarves and coats to join the duck-walking crowd on the aisle, directed and encouraged by ushers whispering urgently the best route to avoid the crowded lobby, to exit onto the urban sidewalk of a cold spring. Again, we were weaving in and out of traffic. But for three balletic dramas, each questioning and celebrating the conundrums of being human, we had been free to fly from our seats, albeit with wings of wax vulnerable to scorching, even melt-down… Balanchine’s “Donizetti Variations” opened a three-part program by teaching our wings to soar to Gaetano Donizetti’s dreamy, sprightly, symmetrical melodies from his 1843 opera, “Don Sebastien.” The vigor of the music belied our modern stereotypes of the classical as bland, of the … [Read more...] about THEATER REVIEW: Boston Ballet’s Kylián/Wings of Wax at the Boston Opera House
