Category: Calendar (ballets, theaters)

Gala Nureyev – Vienna

June 29, 2024

In memory of Rudolf Nureyev, who had such a formative influence on dance in Vienna, the Vienna State Ballet’ Nureyev Gala has been a fixed point in the programme since 2011. Nureyev was a visionary: As a dancer charismatic, emotional…

La Bayadère – Teatro alla Scala Milano

From 26 May to 21 June 2024

Evoking an India of legends, intrigues, and dramatic love, La Bayadère is one of the cardinal ballets of the classical repertoire and an expression of the consummate mastery of Marius Petipa. Nureyev’s production, the last of his interpretations of the…

Swan Lake at the Paris Opera

From 21 June to 14 July 2024

A fairytale ballet set to Tchaikovsky’s scintillating score, Swan Lake was created in 1877 for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and later restaged by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Almost a hundred years later, Rudolf Nureyev brought his own interpretation…