Don
Quixote

 Ludwig Minkus / Marius Petipa, Alexei Fadeyechev

  • Act I

    1 h 30 min

  • Intermission

    30 min

  • Act II

    1 h 30 min

  • Intermission

    30 min

  • Act III

    1 h 30 min

Duration: 3 h 30 min

Performances

Ballet in three acts after Miguel de Cervantes

Premiere: 29/05/2014

Polish National Ballet
Orchestra of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera
Co-production: Hong Kong Ballet, China and the Royal Ballet of Flanders at Antwerp

Marius Petipa – the prominent 19th-century ballet master and choreographer of French origin, creator of over 50 ballets which still form the backbone of the repertoire of major ballet companies all over the world. Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes’ masterpiece about the famous idealist knight searching for his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso, which, according to Milan Kundera, started the “art of the novel”, the genre which represented a new way of thinking about the world. The world premiere of Petipa’s ballet (to the music of Ludwig Minkus) took place on 14 December 1869 in Moscow. Today, 50 years after the Polish premiere (9 June 1964, Warsaw Opera), Don Quixote by Petipa/Minkus returns to Warsaw where the Polish National Ballet will use the art of dance to resurrect the story of “Sir Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance”.

Credits

Sponsors

  • Partnerzy Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partner Polskiego Baletu Narodowego

  • Patroni medialni Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partners of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

  • Partner of the Polish National Ballet:

  • Media patrons of Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera