Ballet Hawai'i will stage its first full-length production of "Coppelia," considered a jewel of the classical ballet repertoire, at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 20 and 2 p.m. Aug. 21, at Blaisdell Concert Hall.

"Coppelia," with music by Leo Delibes, will feature San Francisco Ballet principal dancer Joan Boada and company member Amanda Schull, Hawai'i-trained star of the ballet film "Center Stage"; and Tony-Award-nominated John Selya, from the cast of the Billy Joel-Twyla Tharp hit musical "Movin' Out."

The production culminates Ballet Hawai'i's annual summer training program. Live music will be by the Honolulu Symphony, conducted by Joan Landry, with a dancing cast that includes local performers, other San Francisco Ballet members, and students from other nations. Magaly Suarez, formerly with the Cuban National Ballet, is choreographer.

"Coppelia" is the story of a man, a woman, a mad scientist and his doll named Coppelia, and entails love, infatuation, wind-up dolls and unlikely impersonations, all leading up to a happy ending.