“Le Corsaire” is not a great ballet. With its pirates and harem girls, however, it can be great fun, and that’s the case with the version that Boston Ballet is presenting at the Opera House. Back in ...

Not even a minute after the first dancers appeared onstage at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Friday did a band of pirates gambol in and demand the audience’s attention. Unsurprisingly in a ballet ...

A swashbuckling tale of pirate heroes, exotic harem girls, evil slave traders and a wealthy pasha, Columbia Classical Ballet’s production of Le Corsaire (French for “The Pirate”) is set to sail into ...

Boston Ballet's 53rd season begins with the North American premiere of Ivan Liška's adventure and romance-filled Le Corsaire, with music by Adolphe Adam, Léo Delibes, Cesare Pugni, Riccardo Drigo, and ...

Bob Ringwood’s designs anchor the action in Arabian Nights territory, costumes flooding the stage with colour, the sets a painterly nod to British 1850s orientalism, sumptuous foregrounds framing ...

This exotic fable of a dashing pirate’s love for a beautiful harem girl presents a tapestry of captive maidens, rich sultans, suspenseful abductions, and dramatic rescues—culminating in a shipwreck ...