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Mar 21, 2024 · 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.
A comic yet tragic universal figure lost in his own world and out of place in the world of his contemporaries, ridiculous yet imposing, admirable yet pitiful, Don Quixote knows neither deceitfulness, abnegation, nor betrayal. The loss of his ideals and the surrender of principles: this was the death of Don Quixote.
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.
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 ...
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.
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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.
