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Welcome to the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Website, dedicated to his artistic life and choreographic legacy.

Learn more Nureyev's choreographies, main roles and artistic influence on ballet.

Each year, the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation brings its support to dancers, dance companies, organization of performances, medical and scientific causes.

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The Swan Lake – Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava

Don Quixote at the Teatro di San Carlo

Casse-Noisette at the Paris Opera

Memorial plaque at Rozdolnoe railway station

Exposition permanente virtuelle

Le journal intime de Rudolf Noureev

THE NUREYEV COLLECTION – CNCS

Choreographies

1982 – The Tempest

Rudolf Nureyev’s Choreographies

1979 – Manfred

1985 – Romeo and Juliet

1992 – La Bayadère

1983 – Raymonda

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Ballets

The Prince – The Sleeping Beauty

L’Après-midi d’un Faune

The Prince – The Nutcracker

Sheherazade

Solor – La Bayadère

Jean de Brienne – Raymonda

Pierrot Lunaire

Marguerite and Armand

Manfred

Romeo and Juliet

The Young man and Death

Les Sylphides

A chronology by Marilyn J. La Vine

Basile – Don Quixote

The Prince in Swan lake

Le Spectre de la Rose

Le Corsaire

Apollo

Song of a Wayfarer

Petrushka

Tristan et Isolde

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The Swan Lake – Slovak National Theatre, Bratislava

Swan Lake in Milano at the Teatro della Scala

Cinderella at the Festival of Caracalla in Roma

Memorial plaque at Rozdolnoe railway station

Discover the Rudolf Nureyev Collection at the CNCS in France

A tribute to Rudolf Nureyev – Dansmuseet

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Videos

  • Le Don Quichotte de Noureïev au théâtre Stanislavski et Nemirovitch-Dantchenko de Moscou (2019)

    Le Don Quichotte de Noureïev au théâtre Stanislavski et Nemirovitch-Dantchenko de Moscou (2019)

  • [INTERVIEW] GUILLAUME DIOP et MARC MOREAU répètent "Le Chant du compagnon errant"

    [INTERVIEW] GUILLAUME DIOP et MARC MOREAU répètent "Le Chant du compagnon errant"

  • [TRAILER] DON QUICHOTTE de Rudolf Noureev

    [TRAILER] DON QUICHOTTE de Rudolf Noureev

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the Orchestra Apprenticeship (Apprentissage de l'O the Orchestra Apprenticeship (Apprentissage de l'Orchestree) at the Paris Opera, offers 150 students from different conservatories in the Paris area the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the orchestra and the lyrical repertoire.⁣The 80 apprentice instrumentalists are part of the Rudolf Nureyev beginner orchestra, and their very first internship, which took place from October 23 to 25.

Rudolf Nureyev is known to be one the greatest dancer in the world, but If he had not been a dancer, he would have been a musician.
Nureyev’s ballet was characterized by his extremely deep-rooted responsiveness to music, and his ability to relay every nuance of the score through his body. He danced the music more than he danced to the music. His career as an orchestra conductor was encouraged by three of the most outstanding conductors of his time: Karl Böhm, then Herbert von Karajan and finally Leonard Bernstein. 

After several months work, Nureyev made his debut in June 1991 while ill, as a conductor front of an audience of several hundred people at the Palais Auersperg. He would never acknowledge himself beaten, and this was the message he put across to the world as he embraced this new career.

His very last conducting appearance took place at Berkeley University in San Francisco on the 17th July 1992. His state of health forced him to give up his dream of directing the opening night of “La Bayadère” at the Paris Opera on the 8th October 1992.

Know more about Rudolf Nureyev's career as a conductor via the link in our bio.

by Roland Godefroy
Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake will be presented for Rudolf Nureyev’s Swan Lake will be presented for the first time in Bratislava, Slovakia, by the ballet of the Slovak national theatre @baletsnd on Friday November 3rd.⁣
The new stage and costume design for the tale of the Swan Princess has been created by the sought-after designer Jordi Roig.

@olgathelpanova 
@krut_dancer_ 
@vagnerinka 

📷 by Juraj Žilinčár
The Nutcracker is back for the holidays at the Ope The Nutcracker is back for the holidays at the Opera de Paris - Opera Bastille, from December 8 to January 1st. ⁣
Rudolf Nureyev staged The Nutcracker for the first time in November 1967 for the Royal Swedish Ballet following the request of Erick Bruhn. 

In 1988, Rudolf, produced a filmed production of the ballet with Elisabeth Maurin in the role of Clara, and with Laurent Hilaire playing Drosselmeyer.

It was on the film set for The Nutcracker in the studios in Bry sur Marne that Rudolf Nureyev appointed Elisabeth Maurin principal dancer.

📷 by Icare/ ONP
Manuel Legris and Eleonora Abbagnato
The last Don Quixote of 2023, at the @teatrosancar The last Don Quixote of 2023, at the @teatrosancarlo 

This ballet imagined by Rudolf Noureev is refreshing, cheerful, virtuous and rich in choreography

.#Repost @teatrosancarlo 
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Il Balletto del Teatro San Carlo durante le prove di Don Chisciotte. Ideato da Rudolf Nureyev, sulla precedente coreografia di Marius Petipa e musica di Ludwig Minkus, il balletto ti trascinerà in una fantastica avventura!
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