Ballet San Antonio opens its 2023-24 season with fairy tale production Beauty and the Beast

Experience a tale as old as time as Belle (Brenna Mulligan-Olson) and the Beast (Michael Agudelo) put on their pointe shoes for a two-act ballet retelling of the classic story Beauty and the Beast.

Choreographed by Bruce Wells with music by Léo Delibes, this production combines recognizable elements from the story — a stolen rose, a yellow ballgown, a curse that can be broken with the power of love — with the art of ballet for a performance designed to capture the imaginations of children and adults alike.

This is the opening show of Ballet San Antonio’s 2023-24 season, and two more productions are scheduled to follow — a holiday production of The Nutcracker and the world premiere of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in February.

$36-$132, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 13, 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14, 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 15, H-E-B Performance Hall, Tobin Center for the Performing Arts, 100 Auditorium Circle, (210) 223-8624, tobincenter.org.

Subscribe to SA Current newsletters.

Follow us: Apple News | Google News | NewsBreak | Reddit | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter| Or sign up for our RSS Feed

Related Stories

Go down the rabbit hole with Ballet San Antonio’s Alice in Wonderland at the Tobin Center this weekend

The production features colorful, surrealist projections along with inspired costume and set design to bring Alice’s story to life.

Agarita and Ballet SA to perform at San Antonio College’s McAllister Auditiorium Saturday

The program will include works by Johannes Brahms, Gaspar Cassadó and Frédéric Chopin.

Ballet San Antonio’s annual production of The Nutcracker returns to the Tobin Center

Prior to each performance, attendees can check out a market in the Tobin Center lobby to find last-minute gifts for even the pickiest recipients.

Ballet San Antonio will debut a new take on a tale as old as time with its production of Cinderella

The troupe’s retelling of the famous tale will features the world premiere of new choreography by Conny Mathôt.

Ballet San Antonio brings Spanish flair to the Tobin Center’s stage with its production of Don Quixote

Gender-bending ballet company brings levity to classic dance form at Tobin Center Thursday

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo combines a reverence for the art of ballet with a knack for comedy that highlights the personalities of the troupe’s dancers.

Ballet San Antonio’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream premieres at the Tobin Center this week

Choreographed by Rafael Ferrera, the ballet retells William Shakespeare’s famed comedy of errors.

This article appears in Oct 4-17, 2023.