Nureyev details

Performance role
Debut in a role
Yes
Creative role
  • Performer
  • Choreographer

Other info

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

Royal Ballet mixed programme

9, 17 and 20 January 1968

Frederick Ashton’s new work Jazz Calendar was premiered at the first performance of this programme on 9 January 1968, and Rudolf Nureyev and Antoinette Sibley performed in the movement ‘Friday’ which they created.  In the other two performances Nureyev additionally danced in his version of The Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère.  The third piece in the programme was different at each performance.

Works

Jazz Calendar

Choreography: Frederick Ashton

Music: Richard Rodney Bennett

Performance role: Friday

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Antoinette Sibley (Friday)