David Boechler’s sets and costumes underline the vegetable motif — the garden, with its huge shoots and leaves, makes it seem that Cinderella has entered a miniature fairy world. And the Boston Ballet Orchestra, under Jonathan McPhee, did justice to Prokofiev’s bitter-endive-and-radicchio score.
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Although the gypsy girl Carmen is most familiar from the 1875 opera of that name by Georges Bizet, local audiences have also become acquainted with the Carmen performed by Festival Ballet, which was commissioned by them and first appreciated in the 2003-04 season.
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