Ballett: Don Quixote - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballett: Don Quixote
musical direction
Robert Reimer
choreography
Rudolf Nurejew
Music
Ludwig Minkus arranged by John Lanchbery
stage and costumes
Nicholas Georgiadis
Light
Marc Anrochte
rehearsal
Florence Clerc
Miquel de Cervantes' famous epic about the knight of the sad figure, who travels the world with his servant Sancho Panza to fight against social ills and at the same time sometimes considers a windmill to be a dangerous enemy or imagines himself in a fairy-tale like one in his dreams Magic Garden in the Kingdom of the Dryads, found its way to the ballet stage in 1869 in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater by Marius Petipa.
In 1966, Rudolf Nureyev took up the turbulent love story of Kitri and Basil, whom Don Quixote finally helped to unite against paternal resistance, for his Viennese Don Quixote and created an opulent ballet story with highly virtuosic dances, precise character drawings and colorful pictures full of Spanish color a combination of the then rival ballet worlds: Soviet virtuosity meets a dramaturgically coherent storyline.
For almost 20 years, from the world premiere until 1985, the choreography was on the program in Vienna, regularly with Nureyev himself as the interpreter of Basil. In 2011, Manuel Legris, who himself danced various roles in the production in Paris, brought Don Quixote back to the place of its origin in a carefully prepared reconstruction. In 2023, Nureyev's ballet comedy, which is a calling card for every company with its highest technical demands, can be experienced again with the Vienna State Ballet.
Subject to change.
Robert Reimer
choreography
Rudolf Nurejew
Music
Ludwig Minkus arranged by John Lanchbery
stage and costumes
Nicholas Georgiadis
Light
Marc Anrochte
rehearsal
Florence Clerc
Miquel de Cervantes' famous epic about the knight of the sad figure, who travels the world with his servant Sancho Panza to fight against social ills and at the same time sometimes considers a windmill to be a dangerous enemy or imagines himself in a fairy-tale like one in his dreams Magic Garden in the Kingdom of the Dryads, found its way to the ballet stage in 1869 in Moscow's Bolshoi Theater by Marius Petipa.
In 1966, Rudolf Nureyev took up the turbulent love story of Kitri and Basil, whom Don Quixote finally helped to unite against paternal resistance, for his Viennese Don Quixote and created an opulent ballet story with highly virtuosic dances, precise character drawings and colorful pictures full of Spanish color a combination of the then rival ballet worlds: Soviet virtuosity meets a dramaturgically coherent storyline.
For almost 20 years, from the world premiere until 1985, the choreography was on the program in Vienna, regularly with Nureyev himself as the interpreter of Basil. In 2011, Manuel Legris, who himself danced various roles in the production in Paris, brought Don Quixote back to the place of its origin in a carefully prepared reconstruction. In 2023, Nureyev's ballet comedy, which is a calling card for every company with its highest technical demands, can be experienced again with the Vienna State Ballet.
Subject to change.
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