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San Francisco Ballet’s Program 7 : Caprice,The Four Temperaments and Swimmer

By Jaime Robles, 13 April 2015
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“Possokhov uses the voyage to portray an America that he is haunted by”
Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 10 April 2015
Programme
Caprice (Helgi Tomasson)
Swimmer (Yuri Possokhov)
The Four Temperaments (George Balanchine)
Performers
San Francisco Ballet
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Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles
Jaime Robles has previously written in the San Francisco Bay Area, including for the San Francisco Classical Voice. Also a poet, she has written song lyrics and librettos for several one-act operas, including Inferno (music by Peter Josheff), staged in 2009 by San Francisco Cabaret Opera, and Vladimir in Butterfly Country (music by Anne Callaway), staged in 2012.