2024 / AROP evening / Ballet
04 Apr.

Ballet : Don Quichotte

    Opéra Bastille

    19h30

    Duration
    2h50

    Dress Cocktail attire

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  • 1st part
    19h30
  • Intermission cocktail
    20h20
  • 2nd part
    20h40
  • Intermission cocktail
    21h25
  • 3rd part
    21h45
  • End of the performance
    22h20
Inspired by Marius Petipa’s choreography, Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quichotte 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 spirited score. Written in the 17th century, Cervantes’ novel recounts the adventures of Don Quixote, an idealist and bookworm who one day decides to ride across Spain with the naive Sancho Panza. In Nureyev’s ballet they meet Kitri and Basilio. The two lovers use every trick in the book – from a puppet performance to a fake suicide – to be reunited, despite Kitri’s father’s resistance. In the end it is Don Quixote who delivers the happy ending after battling windmills and crossing paths with Cupid, Dulcinea and the Queen of the Dryads. The costumes and colourful sets sublimate a vivacious and entertaining work.

Don Quixote

Production de 2017

  • Music

    Ludwig Minkus
    (1826-1917)

  • Conductor
    Gavriel Heine

  • Choreography

    Rudolf Noureev

  • Libretto

    Miguel de Cervantès

  • Arrangements

    John Lanchbery

  • Director

    Rudolf Noureev

  • Set design

    Alexandre Beliaev

  • Costume design

    Elena Rivkina

  • Lighting design

    Philippe Albaric

Cast

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Valentine
Colasante

Kitri

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Paul
Marque

Basilio

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Inès
McIntosh

La Première Demoiselle d'honneur

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Yann
Chailloux

Don Quichotte

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Arthus
Raveau

Espada

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Célia
Drouy

La Danseuse de rue

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Camille
Bon

La Reine des Dryades

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Aubane
Philbert

Cupidon

Aubane
Philbert

Sancho Pança

The Étoiles, the Premières Danseuses, the Premiers Danseurs and the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet
The Paris Opera Orchestra