July 7 –August 16, 2014 Lincoln Center Festival is sponsored by American Express July 22 –23 David H. Koch Theater Bolshoi Ballet Don Quixote Ballet in three acts Music Ludwig Minkus Libretto by Marius Petipa After the novel by Miguel de Cervantes Choreography by Marius Petipa, Alexander Gorsky New choreographic version by Alexei Fadeyechev Set Designer Sergei Barkhin Original Costumes designed by Vasily Diyachkov (1903) Revised by Tatiana Artamonova, Elena Merkurova Music Director Alexander Kopylov Bolshoi Orchestra Conductor Pavel Klinichev Approximate performance time: 2 hours 50 minutes, including two intermissions Endowment support for the Lincoln Center Festival 2014 presentation of the Bolshoi Ballet is provided by Blavatnik Family Foundation Fund for Dance. Additional support provided by The Joelson Foundation and members of the Producers Circle. Major support for Lincoln Center Festival 2014 is provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This performance is made possible in part by the Josie Robertson Fund for Lincoln Center. Lincoln Center Festival 2014 is made possible in part with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and New York State Council on the Arts. The Bolshoi gratefully acknowledges the support of Renova Group, sponsor of its 2014 tour. LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2014 DON QUIXOTE July 22, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. Don Quixote Kitri (alias Dulcinea): Maria Alexandrova Basilio, a barber: Vladislav Lantratov Don Quixote, an errant knight: Alexei Loparevich Sancho Panza, his squire: Alexander Petukhov Gamache, a wealthy nobleman: Denis Savin Juanita and Piccilia, friends to Kitri: Yanina Parienko, Anna Rebetskaya Espada, a toreador: Denis Rodkin A Street Dancer: Anna Tikhomirova Mercedes: Oxana Sharova Lorenzo, innkeeper and Kitri’s father: Egor Simachev Wife of Lorenzo: Alevtina Rudina Duke: Alexander Fadeyechev Duchess: Vera Borisenkova Tavern Keeper: Roman Simachev The Queen of the Dryads: Olga Smirnova THREE DRYADS Angelina Karpova, Olga Marchenkova, Yulia Grebenshchikova FOUR DRYADS Daria Gurevich, Anna Voronkova, Svetlana Pavlova, Alesya Gradova Cupid: Yulia Lunkina DANCES Spanish: Maria Zharkova Guitars: Nino Asatiani, Vera Borisenkova Gypsy: Kristina Karasyova Bolero: Anna Antropova, Vitaly Biktimirov GRAND PAS First Variation: Maria Vinogradova Second Variation: Ana Turazashvili LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2014 DON QUIXOTE July 23, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. Don Quixote Kitri (alias Dulcinea): Ekaterina Krysanova Basilio, a barber: Semyon Chudin Don Quixote, an errant knight: Alexei Loparevich Sancho Panza, his squire: Roman Simachev Gamache, a wealthy nobleman: Denis Medvedev Juanita, Piccilia, friends to Kitri: Yanina Parienko, Anna Rebetskaya Espada, a toreador: Vitaly Biktimirov A Street Dancer: Maria Vinogradova Mercedes: Oxana Sharova Lorenzo, innkeeper and Kitri’s father: Egor Simachev Wife of Lorenzo: Alevtina Rudina Duke: Alexander Fadeyechev Duchess: Vera Borisenkova Tavern Keeper: Alexander Petukhov The Queen of the Dryads: Olga Smirnova THREE DRYADS Angelina Karpova, Olga Marchenkova, Yulia Grebenshchikova FOUR DRYADS Daria Gurevich, Anna Voronkova, Svetlana Pavlova, Alesya Gradova Cupid: Yulia Lunkina DANCES Spanish: Nino Asatiani Guitars: Liudmila Ermakova, Vera Borisenkova Gypsy: Anna Balukova Bolero: Kristina Karasyova, Evgeny Golovin GRAND PAS First Variation: Anna Tikhomirova Second Variation: Chinara Alizade LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2014 DON QUIXOTE July 23, 2014, at 8:00 p.m. Don Quixote Kitri (alias Dulcinea): Kristina Kretova Basilio, a barber: Mikhail Lobukhin Don Quixote, an errant knight: Alexei Loparevich Sancho Panza, his squire: Alexander Petukhov Gamache, a wealthy nobleman: Denis Savin Juanita and Piccilia, friends to Kitri: Chinara Alizade, Daria Khokhlova Espada, a toreador: Denis Rodkin A Street Dancer: Anna Tikhomirova Mercedes: Kristina Karasyova Lorenzo, innkeeper and Kitri’s father: Egor Simachev Wife of Lorenzo: Alevtina Rudina Duke: Alexander Fadeyechev Duchess: Vera Borisenkova Tavern Keeper: Roman Simachev The Queen of the Dryads: Anna Nikulina THREE DRYADS Angelina Karpova, Olga Marchenkova, Yulia Grebenshikova FOUR DRYADS Daria Gurevich, Anna Voronkova, Svetlana Pavlova, Alesya Gradova Cupid: Daria Khokhlova DANCE Spanish: Maria Zharkova Guitars: Nino Asatiani, Vera Borisenkova Gypsy: Anna Antropova Bolero: Anna Balukova, Anton Savichev GRAND PAS First Variation: Maria Vinogradova Second Variation: Ana Turazashvili LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2014 DON QUIXOTE Synopsis Prologue Don Quixote, having read his fill of romances of knights and chivalry, decides to set off on his travels in order to do great deeds, which will bring glory to his name. As his sword-bearer, he chooses the loyal Sancho Panza, a man of sober outlook who is not prone to dreams. ACT I In Barcelona there is festivity in the air. Kitri, daughter of the innkeeper, is flirting with the barber Basilio who is in love with her. Finding them together, Kitri’s father, Lorenzo, chases Basilio away: the barber is not a fit match for his daughter. Lorenzo is planning on Kitri to marry the rich nobleman Gamach, but Kitri refuses to submit to her father’s will. At the height of the merry-making, Don Quixote appears in the square, accompanied by Sancho Panza. When he sees Kitri, Don Quixote thinks she is the beautiful Dulcinea of his dreams and the one he has chosen as the lady of his heart. But Kitri disappears; she has run off with her lover, Basilio. Lorenzo, Gamache, and Don Quixote set out to find her. Intermission ACT II, Scene 1 Kitri and Basilio are hiding in a tavern where they are found by the trio. Lorenzo wishes to make an immediate announcement of the betrothal of Kitri and Gamache. But, before he can, Basilio pretends to take his life while Kitri in turn pretends to sob over the body of her sweetheart. Don Quixote, overcome by noble indignation, accuses Lorenzo of hardheartedness, threatens him with is sword, and forces him to agree to his daughter’s marriage with the barber. Hearing this, Basilio jumps to his feet. Scene 2 Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in a gypsy encampment by the windmills. The owner of a puppet theater invites Don Quixote to watch a show. Don Quixote follows the performance with rapt attention and, forgetting it is a play, rushes on to the stage, sword in hand, to defend those who need his protection. Catching sight of the windmills, he mistakes them for evil magicians that must be defeated. Attacking them, he grabs the sail blade and is lifted high into the air before plummeting to the ground. Scene 3 Don Quixote and Sancho Panza find themselves in a forest that the wandering knight thinks is filled with monsters and giants. Sancho Panza settles him down to sleep and runs off for help. In his dreams Don Quixote sees the lady of his heart, Dulcinea, sur - rounded by Dryads and fairies. Sancho Panza returns with the Duke and Duchess who had been hunting nearby. They listen to Sancho Panza’s appeal to help Don Quixote and decide to invite them to visit their castle. Intermission Act III Inside the castle all is ready for the guests. Having heard from Sancho Panza about Kitri and Basilio, the Duke and Duchess have agreed for their wedding to be held in the castle. Don Quixote and Sancho Panza occupy the seats of honor while a solemn procession files past. When the knight catches sight of Kitri, he again thinks she is LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 2014 DON QUIXOTE Dulcinea. But the Duke and Sancho Panza persuade him that she is not the woman of his dreams, but the very same innkeeper’s daughter whom he helped to unite with her sweetheart. Everyone thanks the valiant knight and his faithful sword-bearer. About Don Quixote was fronted by eight Doric columns, its por - tico surmounted by a bronze Apollo driving Don Quixote , loosely based on Cervantes’ his four-horse chariot. The drama company love story of Quiteria (Kitri) and Basilio, has moved to the newly opened Maly Theatre had some revisions since Marius Petipa while the Bolshoi Petrovsky Theatre was first directed to make a ballet “in the devoted itself to the production of opera Spanish manner” for the Moscow Bolshoi and ballet. At that time the ballet was com - Theatre in 1869. Petipa’s original 1869 pro - prised of only 47 dancers. In 1853 fire again duction of Don Quixote was deemed by destroyed the interior of the theater. The many contemporaries to be both too long building was restored by the Venetian archi - and too fanciful; as a result, the Bolshoi’s tect Alberto Cavos (son of the composer version was substantially revised by Caterino Cavos and grandfather of Alexander Gorsky in 1900. During the 20th renowned designer and painter Alexander century the Bolshoi’s Don Quixote under - Benois) and reopened its doors in 1856. went many more changes, including those Today the Bolshoi is considered the princi - by Rostislav Zakhorov in 1940, Mikhail pal national theater of the Russian Gabovich in 1942, and Yuri Grigorovich in Federation, and employs nearly 3,000 peo - 1994. The current Bolshoi production, ple, including its famed opera company and restored by Alexei Fadeyechev with chore - a ballet comprised of more than 200 ography by Petipa and Gorsky, had its pre - dancers. miere on June 25, 1999. In all these many guises, the Bolshoi has now performed Don Quixote more than 1,000 times over EARLY CHOREOGRAPHERS the past 145 years. The first ballets to be produced were by the great French and Italian ballet masters Bolshoi Ballet History including Filippo Beccari, the Morelli broth - ers, and Jean Lamirat. Soon Russian The first permanent theater company in choreographers took over and concen - Moscow was established in 1776 by Prince trated on ballets with Russian themes. Peter Urussov, a public prosecutor in From 1820 to 1830 the company expanded Catherine II’s imperial government, and the to 150 dancers, developed in the French Englishman Michael Maddox. In 1780 tradition under the influence of Felicite- Prince Urussov built a theater on Petrovka Virginie Hullin-Sor and Fanny Elssler, who Street where the company performed familiarized the Moscow public with the drama, opera, and ballet.