Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Company
London Festival Ballet
Sources

London Festival Ballet mixed programme

24 July 1978

Nureyev made role debuts in three works at this performance, although he had danced in an extract from Le Spectre de la Rose on a German television programme in 1961.

A fourth work, The Sanguine Fan by Ronald Hynd, was also presented in this London Festival Ballet bill but Nureyev did not dance in this.  Konservatoriet was presented as Conservatoire and was staged by Mona Vangsaae.

Works

Konservatoriet

Choreography: August Bournonville

Music: Holger Simon Paulli

Performance role: dancer

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Nicholas Johnson,
Elisabetta Terabust,
Eva Evdokimova

Le Spectre de la rose

Choreography: Mikhail Fokine

Music: Carl Maria von Weber

Performance role: dancer

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Eva Evdokimova

Schéhérazade

Choreography: Mikhail Fokine

Music: Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Performance role: The Golden Slave

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Manola Asensio (Zobeide),
Terry Hayworth,
Michael Pink