Ballet "Don Quixote"
Music - Ludwig Minkus
Choreography - Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky; edited by Serge Manguette
Libretto by Marius Petipa based on the novel of the same name by Miguel de Cervantes
Ballet in three acts with two intermissions
Duration - 2 hours 30 minutes
Age limit: 6+

Don Quixote is historically one of the most beloved ballets among Moscow audiences, since it was staged in 1869 in Moscow, on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. Flamboyant, incendiary, eccentric and very complex technically, Don Quixote went down in history as an example of the “Moscow style”.
The plot is based on one of the short stories of the famous novel by Miguel de Cervantes "The cunning hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha". In the ballet, Don Quixote himself is a minor character, and in the center of the narrative is the love story of the innkeeper's daughter Kitri and the barber Basilio.
On the stage of the Mosconcert Hall, this ballet will be presented by the Moscow State Ballet Theater of Classical Choreography La Classique under the direction of Elik Melikov. The collective sees its main goal in preserving the traditions of Russian classical ballet and its popularization. The theater's repertoire includes such pearls of world ballet art as: The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, La Bayadère, Romeo and Juliet, Giselle, Don Quixote, Paquita, Walpurgis Night and others.
The team has been led by the Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Elik Melikov since its foundation. Even among the spoiled metropolitan audience, the performances of this group are always a success. An active touring activity allowed the theater to become one of the most recognizable in Europe, and the Russian ballet seasons in their performance have earned recognition not only of spectators, but also of ballet critics.