The Nureyev Database — Filming Don Quixote

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Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
No
Creative role
  • Performer
  • Choreographer
  • Producer

Other info

Venue
Television/Film
Company
The Australian Ballet
Sources
  • Book 'Rudolf Nureyev: The Life' by Julie Kavanagh (c) 2007

Filming Don Quixote

November 1972

The filming of Nureyev’s production of Don Quixote took place on a specially constructed set in a disused aircraft hangar near Melbourne.

Works

Don Quixote (Nureyev)

Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa

Music: Ludwig Minkus

Performance role: Basilio

Other performers: Lucette Aldous (Kitri),
Robert Helpmann (Don Quixote)