This ballet has an original score composed by Academy Award®-winner Michel Legrand. After this ballet premiered in 2011, it received an award at one of the most prestigious ballet competitions the Prix Benois de la Danse. Both the creators of the ballet’s two leading roles, Carsten Jung (The Hamburg Ballet) and Alina Cojocaru (English National Ballet) were honored with awards for their excellent performance.

Alina Cojocaru will be portraying Julie and Carsten Jung Liliom for select performances at the Segerstrom Center.

“We are delighted that The Hamburg Ballett will return for our 2013 – 2014 International Dance Season with the American premiere of Liliom, a wonderful new work by John Neumeier,” said Judy Morr, executive vice president of Segerstrom Center for the Arts. “Mr. Neumeier’s choreography is elegant and profound, and it’s our absolute privilege to present this work for the first time in this country to Center audiences.”

NOTE: Free Preview Talks will be conducted one hour prior to each performance. The Friday, February 7 Preview Talk will be sign-language interpreted.

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