Why The Royal Ballet love performing Don Quixote

[@RoyalBalletAndOpera]

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[@rozpescador8469]

I love that this ballet makes the dancers seem to play on the stage rather than dancing and performing for the audience.

[@leticiabatistam3449]

Carlos Acosta😍

[@suzannebarton777]

Saw it last night in the cinema, pure joy throughout! I especially loved Alexander Campbell’s cheeky Basilio. They all looked like they were having so much fun!

[@betrisher55]

I would SO love to see Alex Campbell dancing this role! He's so darned handsome and dashing as well as being a lovely, lovely dancer.

[@teagandoodles6097]

This is one of my favorite ballet

[@ellavoslinsky_flute]

LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!! Please can this production with this cast be released on DVD too? The cinemas in my country don't have screenings of the Royal Ballet. I'll sure be one of the first to buy it ;)

[@Udontkno7]

Same here, I don't know where to find such screenings in my own country. They're super obscure.

[@ellavoslinsky_flute]

@a01.Coro BERNABE GOROSTIDI hehehe that's sweet :))

[@thegladys2651]

Don Quixote has a DVD Cast Carlos Acosta and Marianela Nuñez. They are BRILLIANT, :)

[@deevinay]

Ah jeez i wish i could see this😭

[@juliada8121]

Saw it in the cinema, it was absolutely amazing, I was smiling the whole time.

[@barbaralemere1852]

I love this production. Don Q. is romantic and fun and exciting and a full on tour de force for the company.

[@carmen9330]

The music of Don Q always makes me happy 💃🏻🎶🎶

[@islandhorsetaker]

I saw Carlos Acosta's Don Q in Covent Garden 4-5 years ago, with Iana Salenko and Steven McRae in the lead. It was the best. No other production could ever come close! Would love to be able to see all the casts but alas I live so far away... Hoping to catch a show if I'm ever in London again!

[@carolynellis387]

Saw Bolshoi London Summer 2007 I think. A very young Osipova was 5th principal or something like that. ENO on the spur of the moment decision. Friend's birthday, we celebrated on a whim, having coffee outside by St. Martin's in the Fields. I saw the advert and went in to buy tickets. It was hugely imaginative and Pancho, gypsies were incredible dancers the whole production was a Saturday afternoon matinee of the highest standard/ quality dancing Seen Bolshoi 3 x but this was best production ever.

[@elizzy8754]

There are a few comments about how Akane Takada is "not Kitri". I don't agree: Takada just gives a different reading of the character and brings her personal emphasis to the story. After all, she is in a serious, even desperate situation: she may be forced to marry a rich but idiotic man, sealing her fate forever in conservative Spain. So she has to run off with Basilio - something well brought-up girls did not do at the time and which could have led to her being ostracised from the family and village. Kitri does not necessarily have to be a playful, coquettish, always smiling girl. Actually, Takada plays her more as a woman who definitely has a serious side to her; she is deeply in love with Basilio and chooses him over what society thinks. I think Takeda and Campbell are very well matched on stage and give a wonderful performance.

[@actuallychoo]

super good idea to bring in the guitarists!!!!

[@nicolereding7234]

The match Nunez and Acosta were unmatched, a great moment😮

[@gb149]

I saw it a few days ago it was beautiful ( the theatre was amazing and so where the props)

[@brennens8849]

alex campbell is something special

[@noemi_la9329]

I saw this performance at the SF ballet it was gorgeous

[@saeedawhitaker2460]

This looks like such fun!! Any chance you would ever make your ballets available digitally on iTunes or Amazon or something?

[@m_lozanocst7621]

Alexander Campbell has something that makes me wanna love him even more

[@RockyScience]

I didn’t realise Akane’s English is this good - nowhere as good as her dancing though! Love Alex too!

[@cristinacavallo8722]

Amazing ❤️❤️

[@unaanguila]

Thanks for sharing.

[@sofiaguzmanordonez1645]

So amazing !! 😊😍

[@fizzao1342]

So sad I missed it after booking in September as I managed to damage my knee by tripping over a misaligned paving stone and can’t flex my knee. Utterly fed up!

[@charlottesage8181]

Yuhui in the back!! 3:00 3:09

[@jordanwhite694]

So cool

[@awesomy]

보러가고 싶다...

[@siegfried923]

Thank goodness its not Osipova at last RB giving others a chance to shine !!! Dancers can only gain experience in acting technique etc if given the chance Otherwise we are going back to the time when only Fonteyn Nureyev appeared and all the other up coming dancers were passed over Wall Dowell Seymour Park all suffered under that regime Took many years for them to make their mark Some were too old or went to other companies.

[@RockyScience]

Siegfried The thing is I don’t think Osipova deserves it. Love Sarah, Akane, Marianela and Yuhui much more!

[@silena197]

Helen Wang I disagree about RB not giving Osipova many chances, her joining the RB was huge and highly publicised. You can scroll back to see videos posted by this channel before 2018, a large number of them had Osipova in them. RB was trying to milk her fame for all it was worth

[@vapaus831]

Want to see natalia osipova.

[@tacouwu7834]

❤️❤️❤️

[@moonlightchill4538]

Sorry but Akane is not Kitri...love her though

[@ゴンゴン-f6c]

キトリ役日本の方だったの！？ すごく美しい😭💕💕💕

[@elizzy8754]

Yes! Miss Akane Takada who is a Principal with the Royal Ballet.

[@ゴンゴン-f6c]

@@elizzy8754 Oh !!I see!!Thank you for letting me know🥰🥰

[@nicolereding7234]

But after Acosta and Nunez, Kaneko Campbell are lovely

[@anne12453C]

I don't like Akane as Kitri pretty much....Just not her style! She's too classic

[@zvezdicaspasic9548]

Marianela Nunez is better.

[@belle2496]

踊る技術は申し分ないのかもしれないけど、キトリのおてんば感が今ひとつ足りない感じだね。 なんか上品すぎる？ こればっかりは本人の生まれ持った雰囲気だからどうしようもないけどね。

[@elizzy8754]

I have written a separate comment, talking about what a few people think about Akane Takeda's portrayal of Kitri. I believe that this exquisite ballerina gives an authentic reading of the character.