Serenade is a ballet by George Balanchine to Tschaikovsky’s 1880 Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48. Students of the School of American Ballet gave the first performance on Sunday, 10 June 1934 on the Felix M. Warburg estate in White Plains, N.Y., where Mozartiana had been danced the previous day. This was the first ballet Balanchine choreographed in the United States.
Serenade
The stellar cast includes Karin von Aroldingen, Susann Hendl, Sara Leland, Jean-Pierre Bounefous, Peter Martins and Merrill Ashley
