Don Quixote, performed by the Russian National Ballet live at the Ford Center, Thursday, April 25, 2013

Don Quixote is based on the epic masterpiece by Miguel de Cervantes. The choreography for the ballet was created by Marius Petipa at the height of his career.

Based on an episode from Miguel de Cervantes’ famous novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha, the story follows its title hero, a middle-aged country gentleman absorbed with tales of chivalry, who sets out to defend virtue and punish those who violate the code of honor. With his servant Sancho Panza as his armor-bearer, he travels to Barcelona, only to mistake Kitri, an innkeeper’s daughter who is in love with a barber, for his dream-lover Dulcinea. A dance-packed feast of comedy, drama, romance, intrigue, betrayal and fantasy, Minkus’ rousing score endows each scene with rich atmosphere.

The Russian National Ballet Theatre was founded in Moscow during the transitional period of Perestroika in the late 1980s, when many of the great dancers and choreographers of the Soviet Union’s ballet institutions were exercising their new-found creative freedom by starting new, vibrant companies dedicated not only to the timeless tradition of classical Russian Ballet but to invigorate this tradition as the Russians began to accept new developments in the dance from around the world.

When: April 25, 2013 @ 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Cost: $33.50 Orchestra/Parterre, $28.00 Mezzanine/Balcony (General Admission)

More Information and tickets: http://www.fordcenter.org/ai1ec_event/don-quixote-russian-national-ballet/?instance_id=

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