Film
Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
- Director
- Vincent Bataillon
- Year
- 2016
Inspired by heroic stories of brave knights, Don Quixote of La Mancha and his faithful servant Sancho Panza set out on an adventure to meet his ideal woman, Dulcinea. Cervantes’ hero comes to life in the Bolshoi's critically acclaimed staging of this exalting performance. With panache and sparkling technique, principal dancers Ekaterina Krysanova and Semyon Chudin lead the spectacular cast of toreadors, flamenco dancers, gypsies, and dryads in virtuosic dancing that is quintessential Bolshoi. Captured live on April 10, 2016
Top cast
Ekaterina Krysanova
Kitri / Dulcinea
Semyon Chudin
Basilio
Alexei Loparevich
Don Quixote
Roman Simachev
Sancho Panza
Denis Medvedev
Gamache
Ksenia Zhiganshina
Juanita
Anna Okuneva
Piccilia
Anna Tikhomirova
A Street Dancer / First Variation in Grand Pas
Ruslan Skvortsov
Espada
Kristina Karasyova
Mercedes
Olga Smirnova
The Queen of the Dryads
Daria Khokhlova
Cupid
Andrei Sitnikov
Lorenzo, Kitri's father
Galina Ivanovna
Lorenzo's Wife
Alexander Fadeyechev
Duke
Ekaterina Barykina
Duchess
Ksenia Pchelkina
Jig
Alexei Matrakhov
Jig
Directed by
Vincent Bataillon
Written by
Marius Petipa
