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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.
Nov 1, 2023 · Don Quixote at the Teatro di San Carlo. Date: From 14 to 16 November, 2023. Ballet in a prologue and three acts, orchestrated and adapted by John Lanchbery, with a libretto by Vladimir Petrovic Begicev based on Miguel de Cervantes’ novel ‘Don Quixote of La Mancha.’Director | Martin Yates Choreography | Rudolf Nureyev / Marius Petipa Sets ...
Apr 4, 2024 · In Milan they will soon dance Nureyev’s La Bayadère (created for Paris in 1992) but that only got to La Scala in December 2021. In Paris they are dancing his 1981 Don Quixote which was restaged there in 2002 with sets by Alexandre Beliaev and costumes by Elena Rivkina.
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.
The Paris Opera Ballet performs Don Quichotte at the Opéra Bastille, choreographed and directed by Rudolf Nureyev.
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Nureyev restored the importance of the prologue: an initial view into the fantasy world of Don Quixote who makes a knight’s helmet out of a barber’s bowl, and believes he sees the white, luminous Dulcinea, the lady of his dreams, suddenly appear in his lowly, gloomy abode.
