Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
8 April 1979
This was the first performance of the first and only work that George Balanchine created on Rudolf Nureyev. Balanchine revised an earlier work specifically for Nureyev, and it was performed as part of a double bill with Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas by New York City Opera.
You can read more about Balanchine’s versions of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme here.