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Dec 5, 2023 · Inspired by Marius Petipa’s choreography, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote is a true celebration of dance with a Spanish flavour. The soloists and the Corps de Ballet are carried away in ensembles and pas de deux to the strains of a spirited score.
Based on the classic Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes, this ballet adaptation tells the story of the titular Don Quixote: a knight errant who travels across Spain in the pursuit of heroic adventures, accompanied as always by his faithful squire, Sancho Panza.
Jul 30, 2021 · DON QUIXOTE – PARIS OPERA. Date: 09 Dec 2021 to 02 Jan 2022. Inspired by the choreography of Marius Petipa, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote is no less than a festival of dance that shines the limelight on the soloists and Corps de Ballet in a wide variety of ensembles and pas de deux.
Written in the 17 th century, Cervantes’ novel recounts the adventures of Don Quixote, an idealist and bookworm who one day decides to ride across Spain with the naive Sancho Panza. In Nureyev’s ballet they meet Kitri and Basilio.
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A 21 ans, Rudolf Noureev fut un brillant interprète de Basile au Kirov de Leningrad, ayant pour partenaire Ninel Kourgapkina (1959). Ce sera aussi, après avoir choisi de rester à l’Ouest en 1961, l’un de ses rôles fétiches, qui met en valeur une autre facette du danser/ comédien : son esprit malicieux et ses dons comiques. Dès 1962 à New York, Rudo...
A vingt ans, Rudolf Noureev dansait déjà Don Quichotte au Kirov de Leningrad : le livret et la chorégraphie de Marius Petipa en avaient été transmis par la tradition, mais avaient aussi subi des modifications dues aux révisions successives dont la plus importante fut celle d’Alexandre Gorski en 1900. Partant de cette version, Rudolf Noureev va conc...
Noureev reprend la version du Kirov (la production de Gorski d’après Petipa) qu’il a dansée en 1959 et 1960 et y apporte – comme pour ses autres chorégraphies d’après Petipa – des modifications de son cru. Noureev redonne son importance au prologue : c’est une entrée initiatique dans l’univers fantasmatique de Don Quichotte qui, d’un plat à barbe, ...
Distribution de la création au Palais Garnier LaPremièrede Don Quichotte par le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris eut lieu le 6 mars 1981 au Palais Garnier, avec Noëlla Pontois (Kitri), Cyril Atanassoff (Basilio) Elisabeth Platel (la Reine des Dryades), Georges Piletta (Gamache), Jean-Yves Lormeau (Espeda), Sylvie Clavier (La Danseuse de rue), Rudolf Nour...
Throughout his brilliant and itinerant career, Rudolf Nureyev (1938-1993) built a strong and fruitful relationship with the Paris Opera. It began in style as the Kirov Ballet, from Leningrad, went to Paris while touring in Europe, a tour during which Nureyev decided to defect to the West.
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Dec 9, 2021 · In 1981, inspired by the spirit of the Commedia dell’arte, Rudolf Nureyev passed on a cheerfully amusing and energetic work to the Paris Opera Ballet. He further strengthened the ballet’s comic action and accentuated the swirling, giddying rhythm of the choreography.
