N.Y. CITY BALLET CASTING ANNOUNCED

New York City Ballet has announced casting for its seven-performance run (Oct. 15 to 19) at the new Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa. This will be the first Southern California appearance by the full company in 12 years.

Oct. 15, 8 p.m.: “Symphony in Three Movements” (Balanchine/Stravinsky)--Melinda Roy, Heather Watts, Lourdes Lopez, Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Jock Soto, Kipling Houston.

“Tzigane” (Balanchine/Ravel)--Suzanne Farrell, Ib Andersen.

“Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux” (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)--Merrill Ashley, Adam Lueders.

“The Four Seasons’ (Robbins/Verdi)--M. Roy, Paul Boos, Peter Frame, Kyra Nichols, Andersen, Stephanie Saland, Robert La Fosse (debut in this role), Maria Calegari, Sean Lavery, Gen Horiuchi.

Oct. 16, 8 p.m.: “Mozartiana” (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)--Farrell, Andersen, Victor Castelli.

“In the Night” (Robbins/Chopin)--Calegari, Alexandre Proia, Ashley, Lueders, Saland, Cornel Crabtree.

“Who Cares?” (Balanchine/Gershwin)--Patricia McBride, Watts, Lopez, Lavery.

Oct. 17, 8 p.m.: “Serenade” (Balanchine/Tchaikovsky)--Ashley, Nichols, Valentina Kozlova, Lavery, Leonid Kozlov.

“Agon” (Balanchine/Stravinsky)--Watts, Mel A. Tomlinson, Calegari, La Fosse, Helene Alexopoulos, Lauren Hauser, Castelli, P. Frame.

“Symphony in C” (Balanchine/Bizet)--Lopez, Lueders, Darci Kistler, Otto Neubert, M. Roy, Frohlich, Hauser, Ulrik Trojaborg.

Oct. 18, 2 p.m.: “Mozartiana”--Farrell, Andersen, Frohlich (debut in this role).

“In the Night”--Watts, La Fosse (debut in this role), Nichols, Lavery, Saland, Crabtree.

“Symphony in C”--Judith Fugate, Soto, Ashley, Neubert, Katrina Killian, Horiuchi, Stacy Cadell, Houston.

Oct. 18, 8 p.m.: “Symphony in Three Movements”--Alexia Hess (debut in this role), Calegari, Victoria Hall, Frohlich, Bart Cook, David Otto.

“Songs of the Auvergne” (Martins/Canteloube)--Watts, Soto, Hauser, Leslie Roy, Runsheng Ying, Carlo Merlo, Nichol Hlinka.

“Glass Pieces” (Robbins/Glass)--Alexopoulos, A. Hess, Hauser, Houston, Boos, P. Frame, Lopez, Lueders.

Oct. 19, 2 p.m.: “Songs of the Auvergne”--same as Oct. 18, 8 p.m.

“Glass Pieces”--same as Oct. 18, 8 p.m.

“Who Cares?”--Kistler, Calegari, Hall, Lavery.

Oct. 19, 8 p.m.: “Serenade”--same as Oct. 17.

“Agon”--Watts, Tomlinson, Lopez, Christopher d’Amboise, Hall, Diana White, Castelli, P. Frame.

“The Four Seasons”--same as Oct. 15.