"Don Quixote" ballet takes to the stage at Rivoli this July
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Eric Volodine's modern production of Don Quixote ballet derives from the version staged by Alexander Gorsky presentation for the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in 1900.
The most famous and enduring ballet adaptation was created by the choreographer Marius Petipa; Don Quixote was staged for the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1869 and it was a huge success. Over a century later, Eric Volodine's modern production of Don Quixote ballet derives from the version staged by Alexander Gorsky presentation for the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in 1900.
Volodine builds his own version, which premiered in 1990, with the National Ballet Company; based on episodes of "D. Quixote de la Mancha", by Miguel de Cervantes, and interpolates realism with fantasy.
It takes to the stage at the Municipal Theatre Rivoli, on 11 and 12 July at 9pm, and on 13 July, at 7pm.
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