Presentation

Rudolf Nureyev died twenty years ago on January 6th 1993. An exceptional dancer, director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989, with his vast choreographic culture and his overwhelming sense of theatre, he staged his own versions of the great academic ballets inspired by the original choreographies of Marius Petipa while at the same time endowing the Paris Opera with a wide classical repertoire. He also invited numerous choreographers to Paris and took great care in training a new generation of soloists, thus bringing international recognition to the Company. The Opera Ballet continues to perpetuate the heritage he bequeathed it and regularly programmes his ballets and, on the occasion of the anniversary month of his birth (March 1938), it will pay tribute to him by presenting several extracts of his choreographic works.