Don Quixote
Ballet in one prologue and three acts premiered in 1869 in Moscow
• A ballet loosely based on Cervantes’s masterwork
• About (not so much) thwarted loves lived to the rhythm of castanets
• A true fireworks peppered with sangria and tortilla
session 1
2 min
The story
session 2
2 min
The characters
session 3
7 min
Behind the work
session 4
8 min
The score
session 5
6 min
The choreography
session 6
4 min
The pantomime
session 7
4 min
A few anecdotes
© Svetlana Loboff / OnP