The San Francisco Ballet Orchestra has a new recording that pairs Léo Delibes's Coppélia and Sylvia, shedding new light on these vivid and tuneful ballet scores.

A new ballet company, directed by two principal dancers of two major companies, made its debut Monday night at the Joyce Theater. WQXR's Janet Babin reports.

New York City Ballet’s fall season opened to a sellout crowd last night, with the world premiere of Ocean’s Kingdom. Former Beatle, Sir Paul McCartney, wrote the original orchestral score, his first for a ballet. His daughter, acclaimed clothing designer Stella McCartney created the costumes. New York City Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins choreographed the work on City Ballet principal dancers Sara Mearns and Robert Fairchild.

Many of the world's great opera companies double as ballet companies, including those in London, Paris and Russia. But has anyone lately mentioned the Metropolitan Opera Ballet? On WQX-Aria, blogger Fred Plotkin has a proposal for the Met.

The New York City Ballet will begin its fall season two months earlier than usual.

A Valencian Spanish architect will design the sets for five ballets for this year's New York City Ballet Architecture of Dance festival.

Patti LuPone will make her debut at the New York City Ballet in the company's 2011 season.

The New York Times reports that Karl Paquette, 33, a dancer at the Paris Opera Ballet, was promoted to étoile (star) dancer at the company’s New Year’s Eve performance of Rudolf Nureyev’s Nutcracker.