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15 - 26 Mar 2013


Don Quixote
 
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Date and Time

15 - 26 March 2013

Friday 15 March, 7.30pm
Saturday 16 March, 1.30pm, 7.30pm
Monday 18 March, 6.30pm  
Tuesday 19 March, 7.30pm
Wednesday 20 March, 1.30pm**, 7.30pm
Thursday 21 March, 7.30pm
Friday 22 March, 7.30pm***
Saturday 23 March, 1.30pm, 7.30pm
Monday 25 March, 6.30pm*
Tuesday 26 March, 6.30pm

*Post performance Q & A session follows performance on 25 March 2013. Free to patrons who have purchased a ticket to that performance.

** Free Pre-matinee music talk by the Music Director and Chief Conductor, Nicolette Fraillon and members of Orchestra Victoria, will precede the matinee performance, 12pm – 1pm  20 March 2013.  Registrations required through The Australian Ballet by clicking here.

*** Free Pre-performance music talk by the Music Director and Chief Conductor, Nicolette Fraillon and members of Orchestra Victoria, will precede the performance, 5pm – 6pm 22 March 2013.  Registrations required through The Australian Ballet by clicking here.

Pricing

From $ 39
The Australian Ballet presents

Don Quixote

A bravura classic for the whole family, featuring spectacular dancing, much high-jinks, and ballet’s funniest happy ending.

Don Quixote is on a quest: to find the idealised beloved of his age-addled dreams. The mettlesome lovers Kitri and Basilio are also on a quest: to end up together, despite Kitri’s father and his plans for her to marry the richest fop in town. Their paths meet; and after a storm, a vision, much high-jinks and a little emotional blackmail, ballet’s funniest happy ending is achieved. Reinvented by Rudolf Nureyev for The Australian Ballet, and with plenty of classical pyrotechnics, Don Quixote is a benchmark for dancers. This ballet is a tonic, and a must for first-timers and children.

Genre: Full-length story ballet

“It is full of luminous energy, joy and fun sparkles throughout” Sunday Herald Sun


CREDITS

Don Quixote (1869)
Choreography Rudolf Nureyev after Marius Petipa
Music Ludwig Minkus
Orchestrated by John Lanchbery
Costume design Barry Kay
Set design Anne Fraser
Original lighting design Francis Croese recreated by Graham Silver