Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre: Boléro

Susan Jaffe’s choreography beautifully complements the classic, rhythmic tale of Ravel’s Boléro, resulting in the interweaving of dancers and melodies throughout the orchestra for an awe-inspiring interpretation.

Described as a pianist “like no other pianist” (The New Yorker), Igor Levit returns to Pittsburgh with Gershwin’s jazzy Piano Concerto, a work evoking the “young enthusiastic spirit of American life,” as described by Gershwin himself. Then two world premieres top off this already stunning program, including a new orchestral suite arrangement of Strauss’s opera, Salome, by Pittsburgh’s very own Music Director Manfred Honeck.