The Dancer Who Flew, A Memoir of Rudolf Nureyev, by Linda Maybarduk

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

12/87 - Paris - Paris Opera: Nutcracker (12/21, 24, & 26).

12/87-1/88 - Milan - La Scala: Nutcracker (12/16, 18, 20, 31, 1/3, 5, 6, & 10).

1/6 - 7/88 - London - Royal Ballet: "final Giselle" with Guillem.

1/10 - 27/88 - USA - Nureyev & Friends: Apollo, Wayfarer, etc.; Portland, Sacramento, Palm Springs, El Paso, Tulsa, Indianapolis.

2/6/88 - London - Gala for Ninette de Valois' 90th birthday: Sleeping Beauty Act III.

2/19 - 24/88 - Paris - Paris Opera: La Dansomanie.

3/5 & 7/88 - New Zealand - Nureyev & Friends.

3/17-19/88 - Los Angeles - ABT (Mikhail Baryshnikov director): RN danced Count Albrecht in Giselle; RN celebrated his 50th birthday.

?/88 - Vienna - RN sets up scholarship for a young dancer to study with school or company.

3/25 - 26/88 - Vienna - Vienna Dance Festival: Swan Lake (announced as "Swan Song"); received 90 curtain calls; in honor of 50th birthday, became first dancer to be made honorary member of Vienna State Opera.

4/23/88 - Kansas City  -  Nureyev & Friends

5/21-22/88  Milan  La Scala: La Sylphide (Fracci)

6/16 & 26/88   New York  New York City Ballet: Orpheus

6/21 - 7/9/88  New York  Paris Opera: Swan Lake (Siegfried and Rothbart), Nutcracker, St. Sebastion.

6/27/88 - New York - Metropolitan Opera House - Gala: "Nureyev: A Celebration" in honor of 50th birthday; danced Wayfarer (sung by Jessie Norman) Pictures by J. Bellaragione 6/88

7/31 - 8/?/88 - USA Tour-  Nureyev & Friends; Orono, Maine, Bronx, Greenvale, NY, Princeton, NJ, Anniston, Alabama, Baltimore, MD, Philadelphia, PA, College Station TX, St. Louis, MO, Ohio,

9/88 - Italy - Tour (Festival? Fracci? Fonteyn? Apollo? TV?)?

9/23/88 -  New York - RN gives Lee Radziwill away at wedding to Herb Ross.

10/1 - ?/88 - New York & New Jersey -  Nureyev and Friends

?/88  Reported to have bought Ligolli Island ("3 rocks") formerly owned by Massine.

10-11/88 - Italy - Nureyev & Friends on tour.

11/88 - Paris - Paris Opera: RN cancelled Raymonda performances (sick?).

12/2/88  USA  TV performance of Paris Opera in Cinderella

12/88 - Torino, Como - Giselle

12/88 - 1/89 - USA - Nureyev & Friends; Anchorage, Pasadena, CA, Vancouver, B.C., Torrance, CA, Bloomsburg, PA, Wilmington, DE, Harrisburg, Dallas, TX, Omaha, NE, Charleston, WV, Hartford, Connecticut, New Haven.

2/89 - Paris - Twyla Tharp?

3/21/89 - New York - Lecture at New York University

4/24-26/89 - So. China - Nureyev & Friends

5/89 - New York - Paris Opera at Radio City cancelled.

6/8-11/89 - Florence - Premiere of The Overcoat

6/13-14/89 - Milan - The Lesson

6/27 & 28/89 - Paris - Paris Opera: Swan Lake (Rothbart)

7/89 - New York - Daily News announces RN in "The King & I"

8/18/89 to 10/29/89 - Syracus US/Canada Tour - Opening of "The King & I"- Syracuse, Toronto, Boston, Baltimore, Ottawa, Syracuse, Hartford, Stamford, Tampa, Wilmington, DE (Oct. 17 through Oct. 29 - Playhouse Theatre).

8/31/89 - Paris - RN's contract with the Paris Opera Ballet expired, but RN continued to work without a contract.

11/21/89 - Paris - RN resigns as director of Paris Opera

11/27/89 - Leningrad - with an injured leg, RN danced 2 of 3 performances on the Kirov stage.

12/10/89? - Costa Mesa - The King & I

1990 - "The King & I" US/Canada Tour - 1/14/90 - Vancouver, BC, 1/231/90 - Detroit, MI, 1/28/90- Sacramento, CA, 2/4/90 - Portland, OR, 2/5 to 25/90 - 3 weeks in San Francisco.

2/9/1990 - Edinburgh Playhouse  - The Cleveland San Jose Ballet with Rudolf Nureyev in The Overcoat, by Flemming Flindt

1990 - Artemus W. Ham Concert Hall, University of Nevada at Las Vegas - Nureyev & Friends - ensemble from North and South America and Europe performed pas de six from Napoli, Sleeping Beauty pas de deux, pas de deux from Don Quixote, The Lesson, The Moor's Pavane, (Rudolf Nureyev - age 52, Charles Jude, Isabel Seabra, Flavia Vallone, Christine Spizzo, Vivi Flindt and Raymond Smith.)

6/30/1990 - London - Covent Garden Gala by The Royal Ballet, a tribute to Dame Margo Fonteyn.  RN danced the role of Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet.

1991 - France  - Received title of Commandeur de Lordes des Arts et des Lettres.  Made debut as orchestral conductor, with performances in Vienna, Budapest and Athens.

1/18, 19, 20/1991 - Toronto - "The King & I". - 1/23/91 - East Lansing, Jan. 25th & 26th, 1991 - Boston - two performances.

1/28/91 - Rockford, Illinois - Nureyev & Friends, RN conducted short segments of Tchaikovsky's music from Sleeping Beauty. 1/31/91 - Muncie.

2/3 to 2/10/91 - Nureyev & Friends Tour - continued: Philadelphia, Syracuse, Buffalo.

2/10/91 -  Rochester, New York - Eastman Theatre

2/12/91 - Clearwater

2/14/91 - Nashville, Tennessee - Nureyev & Friends, RN conducted.

2/15/91 - Chattanoogo - 2/16/91- Sarasota, 2/20/91.

2/20/91 - Salt Lake City, Utah - Nureyev & Friends, RN conducted.

2/22/91 - Joliet - 2/23/91- Kalamazoo.

2/21/91 - Panama City - Margo Fonteyn died. 

3/2 - 26/91 - Nureyev & Friends Tour US - Austin, Forth Worth, Lubbock, Galveston, Trenton, Orlando, Little Rock, Greenvale, Schenectady, Amarillo.

6/25/91 - Vienna - RN conducted Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Hayden with a chamber orchestra.

2/28/92 - Budapest - Hungarian State Opera, RN danced the role of an Angel "Cristoforo", première at Opera House.

2/28/92 - Berlin - Première of RN's production of Sleeping Beauty as the character Carabosse.

3/1/92 - Budapest - Christoforo, RN's last dance performance.

10/8/1992 - Paris  - Paris Opera: Staged final production (with Kourgapkina), full-length "La Bayadere".  RN appeared for curtain call standing between Isabel Guérin and Laurent Hilaire.

1/6/93 - Paris - RN died.

1/12/93 - Paris - A ceremony in RN's honor held at the Paris Opera House followed by funeral in Ste. Geneviève-des-Bois where RN was buried in a Russian Orthodox Cemetery.  May 6, 1996, a monument created by Ezio Frigerio in the form of a trunk with an oriental carpet thrown over it in red, blue, and gold mosaics was install at the grave site.

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