Don Quixote at Wiener Staatsoper GmbH

The centuries-long dialogue between the Spanish folk dance and the dance of high culture was established, culminating in the ballet Don Quixote premiered 1869 in Moscow. The Frenchman Marius Petipa had let through episodes from the legendary novel by Cervantes stimulated for his ballet. The music is composed by the Austrian of Ludwig Minkus. In the East since the premiere a fixture in the repertoire, was Don Quixote in the West until 1966 were after at the Vienna State Opera institution by Rudolf Nurejew entrance into the international fixture list. Vienna was the Ballet in the world and returned after a prolonged absence again in the House on the ring.