Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer
  • Choreographer

Other info

Venue
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New York, USA
Company
The Royal Ballet
Sources

Royal Ballet mixed programme

15 May 1974

This performance was part of a season given by The Royal Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera House 7-26 May 1974. Nureyev made his debut in the role of Colas in La Fille mal gardée and went on to perform it at The Royal Ballet’s home in Covent Garden in July 1974.

The other item in the programme was Nureyev’s staging of The Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère which was performed by Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell.

Works

Kingdom of the Shades (Nureyev)

Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa

Music: Ludwig Minkus

Other performers: Antoinette Sibley (Nikiya),
Anthony Dowell (Solor)