Scene from Swan Lake. Photo: Gene Schiavone.

ABTKids: Schools will welcome 3,000 New York City public school students to a free performance at the Metropolitan Opera House on Friday, June 7 at 11:00 A.M.  The hour-long, narrated program will feature American Ballet Theatre dancers in exciting excerpts from the Spring season repertoire, including scenes from Swan Lake, Le Corsaire and The Sleeping Beauty.

ABTKids: Schools, formerly called the Young People’s Ballet Workshop, reaches students from 30 public schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan.  ABT has presented this free introduction-to-ballet program for 26 consecutive years.  For more information on ABTKids: Schools, please visit https://www.abt.org/abtkidsschools.

Tickets for American Ballet Theatre’s 2019 Metropolitan Opera House season, beginning at $25, are available online, at the Met box office or by phone at 212-362-6000.  The Metropolitan Opera House is located on Broadway between 64^th and 65^th Streets in New York City.  For more information, please visit ABT’s website at www.abt.org.

Support for ABT at School and ABTKids: Schools is provided by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Con Edison, Colgate-Palmolive, Cornell Family Foundation, Penates Foundation, and Wells Fargo Foundation.

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