15-23 Nov. This new production of an old favourite opens the 2017-2018 season. The new choreography is by Laurent Hilaire inspired by the Mikhail Baryshnikov version for the American Ballet Theatre. It is hoped that Baryshnikov will be in Rome to follow rehearsals.

With dancers Iana Salenko (Berlin's Staadtsoper and the Royal Ballet) alternating with Susanna Salvi (one of the up-and-coming dancers of the Teatro dell' Opera di Roma), Isaac Hernández (English National Ballet) alternating with Angelo Greco (San Francisco Ballet) and Alessio Rezza (a bright new star of Italian ballet at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma after a spell with Paris Opera). Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Piazza Beniamino Gigli 1, www.operaroma.it.