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San Francisco Ballet's Splendid Program 6 Opens

By Jaime Robles, 06 April 2014
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Reviewed at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco on 4 April 2014
Programme
The Firebird (Yuri Possokhov)
Ghosts (Christopher Wheeldon)
La Bayadère (The Kingdom of the Shades) (Marius Petipa)
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.