NYCB Vol. 6 No. 3 - Donizetti Variations

“This is a dance ballet, pure and simple, to some pleasant music by Donizetti. It was originally produced as a part of “Salute to Italy,” a dance program at the New York City Ballet honoring the one-hundredth anniversary of the formation of the Italian state.” —George Balanchine in Balanchine’s New Complete Stories of the Great Ballets (affiliate link)

Patricia McBride and Helgi Tomasson. Photo by Martha Swope, 1974.