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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.…

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…

  “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…

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…

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…

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…

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…