Category: Calendar – archives

Don Quixote at the Teatro di San Carlo

From 14 to 16 November, 2023

Ballet in a prologue and three acts, orchestrated and adapted by John Lanchbery, with a libretto by Vladimir Petrovic Begicev based on Miguel de Cervantes’ novel ‘Don Quixote of La Mancha.’Director | Martin Yates Choreography | Rudolf Nureyev / Marius…

Swan Lake in Milano at the Teatro della Scala

From 15 to 27 September 2023

The most moving Tchaikovsky, the best-loved ballet; after nine years, Rudolf Nureyev’s version of this masterpiece returns to Piermarini’s stage. When ‘his’ Swan Lake debuted at La Scala in 1990, Nureyev reserved the key, equivocal, specular roles of Wolfgang/Rothbart for…

Casse-Noisette at the Paris Opera

08 December 2023 to 01 January 2024

Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev Opéra Bastille – from 08 December 2023 to 01 January 2024 One Christmas Eve, young Clara is given an inanimate puppet, a nutcracker. Holding it in her arms, she falls asleep and dreams of a fantasy…

The Nutcracker – Buenos Aires

18 and 21 of december 2022

Created during the golden age of classical ballet in Russia, it is the best known ballet in the world. The wooden nutcracker becomes a charming prince in Clara’s reverie, to take her through different worlds on her way to adulthood.…

Le Lac des Cygnes – Opéra Bastille Paris

December,10 2022 to Jan. 1st, 2023

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…

Nutcracker – La Scala, Milano

From 17 December 2022 to 11 January 2023

  “2023 will mark the thirtieth anniversary of the death of Rudolf Nureyev,” says the ballet director, Manuel Legris. “We will remember him by bringing back to our stage, in the well-known La Scala productions, two of his most beloved…

Royal Swedish Ballet: Don Quixote

Sep 09, 2022 - Oct 03, 2022

Classical, colorful ballet Don Quixote is back at the Royal Opera The shrewd nobleman Don Quixote is dreaming of living his life like the gallant knights he reads about in medieval romances. He embarks on a journey to fulfil his…

Nureyev: Legend and Legacy – Theatre Royal Drury Lane

Mon 5, Tue 6 and Mon 12 September 2022

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…

Don Quixote – Vienna

28th June, 2023

Photo : Francette Levieux / The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation   The Vienna State Opera has a special relationship with the ballet. It was none other than the inimitable Rudolph Nureyev who brought the ballet to the Austrian capital in 1966…

SWAN LAKE IN VIENNA

13 March to 25 March 2022

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…