Coppelia New York Performances

*Coppélia* returns in the repertory of New York City Ballet, the company founded in 1948 by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein and still central to the city’s dance life. The ballet is a comic tale of mistaken identity and mechanical illusion, set in a village where a toymaker’s doll disrupts an impending marriage. In New York, it has long served as a touchstone for how classical technique can carry clear storytelling without heavy sentiment. Its durability rests in that plain clarity.