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There was much to appreciate Thursday in a program that ran just under 2½ hours at the Boston Opera House.

A contemporary Dutch photographer, Erwin Olaf was known for the precision of his staged photographs of both countercultural figures and Dutch royalty.

One could soundly advise any choreographer to avoid music so transcendentally great in itself that dance can add nothing except banal images. Only a handful of exceptions sneak past the rule: MacMillan’s setting of Song of the Earth, perhaps, and also Hans van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier, his audacious attempt to visualise the infinitely slow movement

Federico Bonelli, former longtime principal dancer at the Royal Ballet, is still fresh in his post as the new artistic director of Northern Ballet. Last week, in the studio theatre at the company’s headquarters in Leeds, he launched Northern’s autumn season with a tasty, if atypical, chamber-sized trio of chamber-sized, one-act dances that together span half a century.

Boston Ballet and Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen present Fall Experience, a program featuring four ballets that will awaken your senses and touch your soul. Boston Ballet is the first American company to perform Akram Khan's profound Vertical Road.