Teatro, Montecasino, 2 to 4 August
*Nicole Ferreira-Dill Farewell Performance
**Shannon Glover Farewell Performance
Shannon Glover as Camille 
Nicole Ferreira-Dill as Camille Shannon Glover and Nicole Ferreira-Dill bid farewell to the stage as Camille in La Traviata-The Ballet, a role in which they have distinguished themselves in previous seasons. Glover dances on Friday 2 August at 20h00 and gives her farewell performance on Sunday 4 August at 15h00 partnered by Marlon Sales. Ferreira-Dill dances her only performance in this short season on Saturday 3 August at 15h00 partnered by Bruno Miranda. These performances offer the public the opportunity to see them in a great ballerina role for the last time. They will be honoured onstage at the end of their farewell performances.
Joburg Ballet’s award-winning production of La Traviata-The Ballet comes to the Teatro at Montecasino for the first time for a short season of five performances from 2 to 4 August.
Winner of a 2021 Naledi Theatre Award, La Traviata-The Ballet is acclaimed as one of the finest ballets by choreographer Veronica Paeper. SA’s leading choreographer in the classical style, Paeper has created an extensive repertoire of ballets and is particularly admired for her full-length story ballets.
Created in Cape Town in 1990, La Traviata-The Ballet is based on the 19th century story of the Lady of the Camellias. A deeply moving portrait of a woman who sacrifices all for the man she loves, the ballet is set to the unforgettable music of Verdi’s opera La Traviata, arranged and adapted for the ballet by Allan Stephenson.
In addition to performances in SA, La Traviata-The Ballet has been presented in the UK where critics admired it as “outstanding”, “graceful, passionate and ravishingly romantic” and “an utterly compelling production”.
Although there are only five performances of La Traviata-The Ballet at Montecasino, Joburg Ballet brings audiences four casts in the leading roles: Shannon Glover and Marlon Sales (Friday 2 August at 20h00 and Sunday 4 August at 15h00), Nicole Ferreira-Dill and Bruno Miranda (Saturday 3 August at 15h00), Monike Cristina and Ruan Galdino (Saturday 3 August at 20h00) and Tammy Higgins and Revil Yon (Sunday 4 August at 11h00).
We are delighted to be bringing this magnificent ballet to the Teatro at Montecasino for the first time and to have
Veronica Paeper, doyenne of South African choreographers, with us in Johannesburg to restage one of her most
distinguished works. It is a privilege to have Veronica working with our beautiful dancers in bringing this searing
story of love and sacrifice to the stage.
Elroy Fillis-Bell
CEO
Joburg Ballet
Monike Cristina and Ruan Galdino in La Traviata-The Ballet 
Tammy Higgins and Revil Yon in La Traviata-The Ballet