Don quixote ballet synopsis

Ballet

This article is about the ballet by Marius Petipa.

Don quixote ballet synopsis

For other uses, see Don Quixote (disambiguation).

Don Quixote is a ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.

It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and first presented by Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet on 26 December&#;[O.S. 14 December]&#; Petipa and Minkus revised the ballet into a more elaborate and expansive version in five acts and eleven scenes for the Mariinsky Ballet, first presented on 21 November&#;[O.S.

9 November]&#; at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre of St. Petersburg.

All modern productions of the Petipa/Minkus ballet are derived from the version staged by Alexander Gorsky for the Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in , a production the ballet master staged for the Imperial Ballet of St.

Petersburg in

History

Earlier versions

The two chapters of the n