Don Quixote (The Royal Ballet)
- Released on
- Runtime
- 180 mins
Carlos Acosta's first venture directing one of ballet's 19th century classics was eagerly anticipated, as was his own starring role in the production (as Basilio), opposite the Argentinian Royal Ballet principal Marianella Nuñez (Kitri). Still built on Petipa's original choreography, Acosta's clear dramatic structure and vivid stage action gave the ‘boy gets girl despite her father’ story a more convincing air than usual, with Don Quixote's parallel obsession with Dulcinea-Kitri coherently woven into the plot.
Carlos Acosta's first venture directing one of ballet's 19th century classics was eagerly anticipated, as was his own starring role in the production (as Basilio), opposite the Argentinian Royal Ballet principal Marianella Nuñez (Kitri). Still built on Petipa's original choreography, Acosta's clear dramatic structure and vivid stage action gave the ‘boy gets girl despite her father’ story a more convincing air than usual, with Don Quixote's parallel obsession with Dulcinea-Kitri coherently woven into the plot.
Cast
- Marianela Núñez
- Carlos Acosta
- Christopher Saunders
- Philip Mosley
- Ryoichi Hirano
- Laura Morera
- Bennet Gartside
- Gary Avis
- Melissa Hamilton
- Elizabeth Harrod
- Christina Arestis
- Yuhui Choe
- Beatriz Stix-Brunell
- Valeri Hristov
- Johannes Stepanek
- Itziar Mendizabal
- Tom Whitehead
- Kristen McNally
Director
- Ross MacGibbon
