One of the great ballet pairings of recent years — David Hallberg and Natalia Osipova — will be reunited in New York City this spring during American Ballet Theater’s season at the Metropolitan Opera House, the company announced Thursday.
Mr. Hallberg, a principal dancer at Ballet Theater and the Bolshoi, and Ms. Osipova, now a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet in London, have caused sensations dancing together in earlier seasons. They are scheduled to appear together in performances of “La Bayadère,” “Romeo and Juliet” and Alexei Ratmansky’s new production of “The Sleeping Beauty.”
Ballet Theater has lined up a number of prominent guests for the season, which celebrates its 75th anniversary, including Evgenia Obraztsova, a principal dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet; Olga Smirnova, a leading soloist with the Bolshoi; and Maria Kochetkova, a principal with San Francisco Ballet.
Misty Copeland, a soloist with Ballet Theater with a rising public profile, is scheduled to dance the dual role of Odette and Odile in “Swan Lake” for the first time in New York and to dance her first “Romeo and Juliet.”
And three of the company’s principal dancers — Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent and Xiomara Reyes — will be giving their final performances before retiring.