The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons is a ballet choreographed by New York City Ballet ballet master Jerome Robbins to excerpts from Giuseppe Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani (1855), I Lombardi (1843), and Il Trovatore (1853). The premiere took place on 18 January 1979 at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, with scenery and costumes by Santo Loquasto and lighting by Jennifer Tipton. Original cast Lucinda Murdoch Eliana Dipietro Elli Trimble Stephanie Saland Maria Calegari Patricia McBride David Richardson Joseph Duell Peter Frame Francis Sackett Daniel Duell Bart Cook Mikhail Baryshnikov Jean-Pierre Frohlich Gerard Ebitz