Nureyev details

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

Other info

Venue
Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria
Company
Vienna State Opera Ballet
Sources

Swan Lake

15 & 18 October 1964

The performance on Thursday 15 October 1964 was the premiere of this production and Fonteyn and Nureyev received 89 curtain calls.  You can read more about Nureyev’s Swan Lake here.

Works

Swan Lake (Nureyev)

Choreography: Rudolf Nureyev, Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov

Music: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky

Performance role: Prince Siegfried

Debut performance of this role

Other performers: Margot Fonteyn (Odette/Odile)