Don Quixote is one of the most cheerful, vivid and festive works of the ballet theatre. It is interesting that, despite its name, this brilliant ballet is by no means a stage adaptation of the famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes, but an independent choreographic work by Marius Petipa based on Don Quixote.
In Cervantes' novel, the image of the sad knight Don Quixote, ready to any feats and noble deeds, is the basis of the plot. In Marius Petipa's ballet to music by Ludwig Minkus, which premiered at the Bolshoi Theater in 1869, Don Quixote is a minor character and the plot focuses on the love story of Kitri and Basilio.
Minimum age: 12+
