Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
No
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Kirov Theatre, Leningrad, USSR
Company
Kirov Ballet
Sources
  • Marilyn J La Vine (c) 2007 New York
  • Book 'Rudolf Nureyev: The Life' by Julie Kavanagh (c) 2007

Laurencia

7 April 1959

This performance was Nureyev’s second partnering Natalia Dudinskaya in a lead role, his first being on 20 November 1958.  You can read about his early life and career at the Kirov here.

Works

Laurencia

Choreography: Vakhtang Chabukiani

Music: Alexander Krein

Performance role: Frondoso

Other performers: Natalia Dudinskaya (Laurencia),
Boris Shavrov