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Sylvia
April 12, 2026 at 1:00 pm
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
Costa Mesa, California
Sylvia
Choreography by Frederick Ashton
Music by Léo Delibes
Original Designs by Robin Ironside and Christopher Ironside
Additional Designs by Peter Farmer
Lighting by Mark Jonathan
In this Arcadian love story, set in mythical Greece amid a realm of otherworldly creatures and verdant forests, the deity Eros intervenes to unite the nymph Sylvia with the lovelorn shepherd Aminta. The splendid score by Léo Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed at the time, he would never have composed Swan Lake!