San Francisco Ballet recasts a classic with contemporary insight

I n a British military barracks, soldiers are sleeping on stone without blankets. Fevers run high with typhus or typhoid and cholera. At Scutari, across the Bosporus from Constantinople, women are risking their lives to tend the sick and the dying. Late at night, working by oil lamp, they can look out the window at the minaret of the Selimiye Mosque. Tamara Rojo, artistic director for the San…