Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer

Other info

Venue
Royal Opera House, London, United Kingdom
Company
The Royal Ballet
Sources

Royal Ballet mixed programme

15 and 21 November 1973

The performance on 15 November 1973 was Nureyev’s debut in George Balanchine’s Agon. The other works in the programme were Frederick Ashton’s Daphnis and Chloë and Les Noces by Bronislava Nijinska but Nureyev did not dance in those at either performance.

You can read more about Agon on the Balanchine Catalogue here.

Works

Agon

Choreography: George Balanchine

Music: Igor Stravinsky

Performance role: dancer

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Vergie Derman,
Laura Connor,
David Wall