Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
No
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Moscow, USSR
Company
Leningrad State Academic Vaganova Choreographic Institute
Sources
  • Marilyn J La Vine (c) 2007 New York
  • Book 'Rudolf Nureyev: The Life' by Julie Kavanagh (c) 2007

Moscow Competition

21 April 1958

This performance, at which Nureyev danced Acteon’s variation from Esmeralda, was part of a national competition for ballet schools held in Moscow.  Nureyev also danced at a performance the following day.

Works

Esmeralda

Choreography: Vakhtang Chabukiani, Agrippina Vaganova

Music: Cesare Pugni

Performance role: Acteon