Classical Ballet Don Quixote - L.Minkus (Ballet in two acts ) - Sergey Radchenko`s Russian National Ballet Moscow theatre "New Opera"
Schedule for Don Quixote - L.Minkus (Ballet in two acts ) - Sergey Radchenko`s Russian National Ballet 2022
Composer: Ludwig Minkus Set Designer: Lev Solodovnikov Choreography: Alexander Gorsky
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of the "New Opera" Theatre
Ludwig Minkus
Don Quixote
Ballet in two acts
Sergey Radchenko's Russian National Ballet
Librettist and Choreographer Alexander Gorsky
Edited by Yuri Vetrov, Elena Radchenko
Set Designer Lev Solodovnikov
Costume Designers Elena Radchenko, Sergey
Radchenko
The Orchestra of the Novaya Opera Theatre
Synopsis PROLOGUE Don Quixote is absorbed in reading books of chivalry.
Fictitious happenings become more real to him than anything else in the world.
His day-dreaming is interrupted by Sancho Panza, a fat man, pursued by peasant
women for pilfering. Don Quixote stands up for him and the grateful Sancho
becomes his squire.
Scene 1 A square in Barcelona. Festive
animation reigns at Lorenzo’s inn. Kitri, the innkeeper’s daughter is coquetting
with the barber Basil, who is in love with her. Kitri’s father sees them and
drives Basil away. He wants Kitri to get married to a wealthy hidalgo. But Kitri
stubbornly refuses to yield to her father’s will. Toreadors headed by famous
Espada stalk along the square. They start a dance imitating a corrida. A street
dancer, who is in love with Espada dances among daggers and enraptures
everybody. Suddenly the crowd parts: Sancho Panza gives blasts on his horn
heralding that the knight-errant Don Quixote is coming. Lorenzo courteously
invites a queer-looking visitor in his inn. Sancho stays in the square where
burgers start mocking at him. Don Quixote hurries to rescue his squire. Dances
are resumed. Enamored Basil and Kitri are together again. On seeing Kitri, Don
Quixote takes her for his lady-love. He kneels down in front of the innkeeper’s
daughter...
Scene 2 Kitri and Basil are alone in the meadow at the
windmills. There is a gypsy encampment nearby. Don Quixote and his loyal squire
Sancho Panza come here. Gipsies invite everybody to see a marionette
performance. Marionettes play a comedy in which a knight leaves home to perform
his deeds of chivalry, whereas his wife is kidnapped by a cruel Moor. Don
Quixote stands up for the offended wishing to restore fairness. Everybody flees
in horror, the theatre crashes down. Don Quixote catches sight of long arms of
the giants-the windmills. Sancho tries to persuade the knight-errant that it is
not a giant but a windmill. But Don Quixote attacks the imagianary giant and a
sail-arm ifts him in the air. Don Quixote loses his grip and falls down
unconscious. Monsters and phantoms surround the knight-errant.
Scene
3 Visions arise in the mind of the wounded knight-it seems to him that he is
in a beautiful forest among the ruins of an ancient castle in the realm of
driads. Here Cupid wounds his heart with his arrow and Don Quixote’s love for
his love-lady becomes eternal. But it’s only a dream. Sancho brings his master
to reality. Gamash and Lorenzo come looking for escaping lovers - Kitri and
Basil. Don Quixote puts them on the wrong track, but a simple-minded Sancho
"corrects" his mistake and pursuit goes on.
Scene 4 The participants
of the festivity come here. At the peak of the festivity Kitri and Basil run
here: happy to hide from pursuers. Toreadors and Espada come here too, and the
beautiful Mercedes devotes her temperamental dance to her Espada. The innkeeper
is worried. Gamash and Lorenzo come. Friends try to hide Kitri but in vain.
Lorenzo joins Kitri’s and Gamash’s hands against his daughter’s will and blesses
them. Basil elbows his way through the crowd. He is in despair. The only way out
for him is death. Kitri begs her father to bless their love: Basil will die all
the same. Lorenzo hesitates. Don Quixote orders him to yield to Kitri’s wish.
Unwillingly Lorenzo blesses Kitri’s and Basil. Basil gets up-his suicide was a
prank. Friends push Gamash out of the inn. Festivity, dances go on.
Scene 5 Everything is ready for the
celebration in the square of Barcelona in the honour of Kitri and Basil. Among
guests are knight-errant Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza. An unknown
knight appears and accuses Don Quixote of humiliated dignity. He challenges Don
Quixote to a duel. Don Quixote wins and everybody recognizes Gamash in the
unknown knight. The festivity starts. Don Quixote and Sancho bid farewell and
set off to seek new adventures.
Schedule for Don Quixote - L.Minkus (Ballet in two acts ) - Sergey Radchenko`s Russian National Ballet 2022
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