The Ballet Center at the Wilkes University Conservatory presents “Coppelia” on Saturday, June 6 at 7 pm and Sunday, June 7 at 2 pm. For more information, email conservatory@wilkes.edu or call 570-408-4426.
Coppelia is a whimsical 19th-century comic ballet about a young woman named Swanilda who saves her fiancé Franz from a lonely inventor Dr Coppelius, who mistakes his lifelike mechanical doll for a real person. After discovering the doll’s true nature, Swanilda poses as the doll to teach Franz a lesson.