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Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote

Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote – Return to Vienna. “A Don Quixote to love … Legris and company can count the evening a total success”. (Die Presse)

Don Quixote was created by the master choreographer Marius Petipa, together with the composer Ludwig Minkus, for the Imperial Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow in 1869. Marking the 400th anniversary of Cervantes’s death, Don Quixote is here seen in the revised version by Rudolf Nureyev which the French choreographer Manuel Legris – once a noted Basil himself in his days as an “étoile” in Nureyev’s Paris troupe – devised for the Wiener Staatsballett. “A Don Quixote to love … Legris and company can count the evening a total success” (Die Presse). As for the two principals, Maria Yakovleva and Denys Cherevychko as Kitri and Basil, no praise was high enough: “both are technically brilliant” (Wiener Zeitung).

Original title Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote
Genre Ballet
Recording location Wiener Staatsoper, May 2016
Duration 122 mins
Production Company A co-production of ORF und UNITEL CLASSICA in cooperation with Wiener Staatsoper
Composer Ludwig Minkus
Orchestra / Band Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
Conductor Kevin Rhodes
Choreography by Rudolf Nurejew
Dance Company Wiener Staatsballett
Soloist Maria Yakovleva, Denys Cherevychko