Happy Bastille Day to all our French followers! 🇫🇷 To celebrate, here's a classic clip of Gounod's opera Faust, featuring a cabaret scene set below a rather familiar landmark... Available to stream with a 14-day free trial 🎟 https://bit.ly/3T5dVoB | Royal Ballet And Opera

Charles Gounod's 1859 opera Faust garnered him international renown, widely noted for its emphasis on musical motifs rather than theatrics to convey character. George Balanchine's Walpurgisnacht Ballet, choreographed for a 1975 production of the opera, similarly favors a pure-dance interpretation of the story's "witch night." See it just as it premiered at the Paris Opera on our Classic NYCB I program this coming winter: nycballet.com/classicnycb1winter | New York City Ballet