An avid and passionate reader of chivalric romances, Don Quixote decides that for the sake of his own glory and the common good, he must set out in search of adventures as a knight-errant. He sets for himself an objective no lower than to "redress grievances, right wrongs and repair injustices." The ballet primarily focuses on a humorous love story taken from the novel by Cervantes: the tale of Kitri and Basilio, who – despite all adversity – live happily ever after through the intervention of Don Quixote.
Credits:
Libretto: Marius Petipa
Choreographer: Michael Messerer / Kasyan Goleizovsky / Marius Petipa / Alexander Gorsky
Composer: Ludwig Minkus
Conductor: Gergely Kesselyák
Cast:
- Don Quixote:Attila Szakács
- Sancho Panza: Maksym Kovtun
- Kitri: Tatiana Melnik
- Basil: Igor Tsvirko
- Espada: Iurii Kekalo
- Mercedes: Sofia Ivanova-Skoblikova
- Friends of Kitri: Lili Felméry / Rita Hangya
- Street dancer: Karina Sarkissova
- Gamache: Alekszandr Komarov
- Lorenzo: Gábor Szigeti
- Gypsy girl solo: Lea Földi
- Gypsy boy solo: Balázs Majoros
- Amor: Yourim Lee
- Queen of the dryads: Minjung Kim
- Pas de six solo girls: Kristina Starostina / Diana Kosyreva
- Pas de six girls: Nika Crnić / Annamaria Voltolini / Adrienn Horányi / Camilla Mancuso / Anri Okada / Ellina Pokhodnykh
- Fandango female solo: Angela Mingardo
- Fandango male solo: Dénes Darab