Category: Calendar – archives
21st March to 24th April 2024
Inspired by Marius Petipa’s choreography, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote is a true celebration of dance with a Spanish flavour. The soloists and the Corps de Ballet are carried away in ensembles and pas de deux to the strains of a…
3rd of November, 2024
Classical ballet by Peter I. Tchaikovsky’s The Swan Lake is undeniably the most famous ballet title of the world repertoire and the most frequently performed ballet title on the domestic stage. After a number of traditional and also not-so-traditional productions,…
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…
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…
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 corps de ballet of the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, directed by Eleonora Abbagnato, presents for the first time the modern reinterpretation of Nureyev, created in 1986 for the Paris Opéra; the score by Serge Prokofiev is entrusted to the…
16th to 26th
Embark on a quest for true love with dreamer Don Quixote and his faithful squire Sancho. Follow them through the Spanish countryside as they pursue romantic ideals, battle imaginary dragons, and get mixed up in the merry misadventures of…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
