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

2, 3, 6, 9 April 1964

The full programme for these performances was The Dream, Images of Love and Hamlet. Nureyev performed in the last two pieces at each performance.  In Images of Love Nureyev, Lynn Seymour and Christopher Gable danced Section 7 ‘Sonnet CXLIV – Two loves I have of comfort and despair’.  This and the title role in Hamlet were role debuts for him at the performance on 2 April.

Works

Images of Love

Choreography: Kenneth MacMillan

Music: Peter Tranchell

Performance role: dancer

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Lynn Seymour,
Christopher Gable

Hamlet

Choreography: Robert Helpmann

Music: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Lynn Seymour (Ophelia)