THE ROYAL BALLET
Director
Kevin O'Hare CBE
Founder
Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE
Founder Choreographer
Sir Frederick Ashton OM CH CBE
Founder Music Director
Constant Lambert
Prima Ballerina Assoluta
Dame Margot Fonteyn DBE
The Royal Opera House Principals Julia and Hans Rausing
CREDITS
Production and choreography
Carlos Acosta after Marius Petipa
Music
Ludwig Minkus
Arranged and orchestrated by
Martin Yates
Designer
Tim Hatley
Lighting Designer
Hugh Vanstone
Staging
Christopher Saunders
Senior Répétiteurs
Gary Avis and Samantha Raine
Répétiteurs
Helen Crawford and Sian Murphy
Principal coaching
Carlos Acosta, Alexander Agadzhanov, Leanne Benjamin, Olga Evreinoff and Zenaida Yanowsky
CAST
Don Quixote
Gary Avis
Sancho Panza
Daichi Ikarashi
His squire
Lorenzo
Christopher Saunders
The innkeeper
Kitri
Yasmine Naghdi
His daughter
Basilio
Matthew Ball
A young barber
Gamache
Thomas Whitehead
A rich nobleman
Espada
Nicol Edmonds
A famous matador
Mercedes
Itziar Mendizabal
A street dancer
Dulcinea
Nadia Mullova-Barley
Kitri's Friends
Mica Bradbury, Hannah Grennell
Two Matadors
David Donnelly, Joonhyuk Jun
Gypsy Couple
Annette Buvoli, Lukas B. Brændsrød
The Queen of the Dryads
Mariko Sasaki
Amour
Sae Maeda
Fandango Couple
Nadia Mullova-Barley, Lukas B. Brændsrød
Guitarists
David Buckingham, Daniel Thomas, Nigel Woodhouse
Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Conducted by
Valery Ovsyanikov
Concert Master
Magnus Johnston
Townspeople, Matadors, Gypsies, Dryads Artists of The Royal Ballet, Students of The Royal Ballet School
Students of The Royal Ballet School appear by kind permission of the Artistic Director Christopher Powney