Principal Dancers for the 2010 Metropolitan Opera season will include Maxim Beloserkovsky, Roberto Bolle, Jose Manuel Carreno, Angel Corella, Herman Cornejo, Irina Dvorovenko, Marcelo Gomes, David Hallberg, Paloma Herrera, Julie Kent, Gillian Murphy, Veronika Part, Xiomara Reyes, Ethan Stiefel, Diana Vishneva and Michele Wiles. Natalia Osipova, a leading soloist with the Bolshoi Ballet, will return for the Spring season as a guest artist.

Saks Fifth Avenue is the Leading Corporate Sponsor of the Costume Fund.  J.P. Morgan is the Leading Corporate Sponsor of Make a Ballet.  American Airlines is ABT's Official Airline.  Northern Trust is the Official Sponsor of the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School at American Ballet Theatre.  LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton is the Official Sponsor of ABT II.  The 2010 Metropolitan Opera House season is also made possible with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recovery Act, the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.            

American Ballet Theatre's 70th Anniversary season celebration will open with a Gala performance featuring ABT's Principal Dancers on Monday, May 17 at 6:30 P.M.  For information on ABT's Spring Gala, please call the Special Events Office at 212-477-3030, ext. 3239.  ABT's Spring Gala in sponsored by NBC Universal  and GRAFF.

Subscriptions for American Ballet Theatre's 2010 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House are on sale now by phone at 212-362-6000, or online at ABT’s website www.abt.org.

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