Category: Calendar (ballets, theaters)

This September, the world’s leading ballet stars will join together to celebrate the legacy of the legendary dancer Rudolf Nureyev. Widely regarded as the greatest ballet dancer ever, he transcended borders and his performances popularized ballet with audiences throughout the…

Rudolf Nureyev’s famous ballet, designed for the Paris Opera, is back on stage until May 6, 2022. On October 8, 1992, the ballet in 3 acts was created by Rudolf Nureyev on the stage of the Palais Garnier, with the…

It is the most famous ballet of all time: the tragic story of Prince Siegfried, who finds himself deep in the forest in the middle of the night, falls in love with the Swan Princess Odette and swears to be…

Rudolf Nureyev put The National Ballet of Canada on the map when he staged his own version of The Sleeping Beauty for the company in 1972. Showy and opulent, it set off an unprecedented period of international touring and acclaim…

Opéra Bastille – Paris from 09 December 2021 to 02 January 2022 Inspired by the choreography of Marius Petipa, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote is no less than a festival of dance that shines the limelight on the soloists and Corps…

Opéra Bastille – from 02 April to 06 May 2022 The final work of a life utterly devoted to dance, La Bayadère by Rudolf Nureyev has become one of the jewels of the Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire. First performed in…

On Sunday 26 June 2022   The Vienna State Ballet’s Nureyev Gala, introduced as the season’s finale by Manuel Legris in 2011, will be continued in alternate years under Martin Schläpfer: “As a bow to this truly exceptional dancer, but…

Photo Julien Benhamou (Hugo Marchand et Dorothée Gilbert) It is hard to believe that Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky’s first ballet, Swan Lake, created in 1877 for the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, was a failure, so striking is its music for its…