06:00 pm | Prinzregententheater

Don Quijote

Ray Barra / Marius Petipa

Ballet

Ballet

Don Quijote

Choreography Ray Barra / Marius Petipa. Music Ludwig Minkus.


recommended for 6 years and later

Ballet in two acts and five scenes

Don Quijote by Marius Petipa, first performed at the Bolschoi Theatre Moscow in 1869 to music by Ludwig Minkus, is widely regarded today as one of the greatest dramatic ballets of the 19 th Century. Since 1991, the Munich Company has been performing the American choreographer Ray Barra's version, reworked at the time by the then newly founded Bayerisches Staatsballett. The piece was last performed in 2011. Now, after a seven year break, it returns to the stage of the Prinzregententheater.


Barra, who also adapted Swan Lake and Raymonda for the Bayerisches Staatsballett, had great respect for choreographic tradition. Thus, the episode chosen by Pepita from Cervantes' novel,  the love story between the Barbier Basilio and the inn-keeper's daughter Kitri, unfolds beautifully. In accordance with her father's wishes, Kirtri must marry the rich Gamacho. But with wit and cunning, as well as a helping hand from Don Quijote, the two lovers Kitri and Basilio succeed in marrying in the end.