Alonzo King Lines Ballet & Peter Sellars by Ravel, Schoenberg, Arnold, De (2024/2024), Dirigit per Peter Sellars, Director musical Esa-Pekka Salonen, Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco, United States

Ravel’s enchanting Mother Goose characters come to vivid life thanks to Alonzo King’s inventive choreography and the dancers of LINES Ballet. Schoenberg described his monodrama Erwartung as a nightmare, a moment of psychological trauma enacted in slow motion. As The Woman, soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams leaps and plunges between emotional extremes: hopeful and terrified, enraged and miserable. Peter Sellars’s electrifying new staging mirrors her shifting moods.