The season, marking the Company’s 80th Anniversary, was scheduled for May 11July 4, 2020. 1 in a basement room with (very famous) conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. American Ballet Theatre announced last week the cancellation of its 2020 season at the Metropolitan Opera House. While ABT may be about to take the stage, the scenic shop is busy crafting faux flowers for an upcoming opera production of Madama Butterfly, and the Met Orchestra is rehearsing Mahler’s Symphony No. But it’s also nuts to realize just how much non-dance stuff is happening inside the giant theater. We see tons of delicious dance stuff, of course: Misty Copeland warming up in class, David Hallberg texting in a hallway, James Whiteside (ID’ed not only by his given name but also by his drag queen name, which is amazing) prepping to play Prince Coffee. The Metropolitan Opera Home to the greatest artists in opera, the Met presents more than 200 performances each season and transmits 10 productions to movie theaters worldwide as part of the acclaimed Live in HD series. They condensed the two-hour tour into a seven-minute video (“Don’t blink,” says a helpful caption)-and captured a little bit of all the different parts of the Met’s bustling backstage world. The New York Times recently took a camera behind the scenes at the Met as ABT got ready for a performance of Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream. But backstage before a show by the world-class American Ballet Theatre at the 3,800-seat Metropolitan Opera House? That’s a completely different level of crazy. As dancers, we know how crazy things can get backstage before a show.

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