Don Quixote at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Marius Petipa – the prominent 19th-century ballet master and choreographer of French origin, creator of over 50 ballets which still form the backbone of the repertoire of major ballet companies all over the world. Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes’ masterpiece about the famous idealist
knight searching for his beloved Dulcinea del Toboso, which, according to Milan Kundera, started the “art of the novel”, the genre which represented a new way of thinking about the world. The world premiere of Petipa’s ballet (to the music of Ludwig Minkus) took place on 14 December 1869 in Moscow. Today, 50 years after the Polish premiere (9 June 1964, Warsaw Opera), Don Quixote by Petipa/Minkus returns to Warsaw
where the Polish National Ballet will use the art of dance to resurrect the story of “Sir Knight of the Sorrowful Countenance”.