The Nureyev Database — Paris Opera Ballet mixed programme

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Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer

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Company
Paris Opera Ballet
Sources

Paris Opera Ballet mixed programme

13, 16, 22 and 23 November 1974

This programme also included Balanchine’s Apollo with the title role danced by Michael Denard.

At the performance on 13 November 1974 Nureyev made his debut in the title role of Glen Tetley’s Tristan which had been created on him. You can read more about his work with contemporary choreographers here: The Seventies: Gate Crashing

Works

Tristan

Choreography: Glen Tetley

Music: Hans Werner Henze

Performance role: Tristan

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Jean Guizerix,
Wilfride Piollet,
Michael Denard