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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

4/22 thru 5/3/80 - New York - Martha Graham Dance Company: Equatorial, Appalachian Spring, Clytemnestra; at the Metropolitan Opera House.

4/27/80 - Philadelphia - Nureyev receives a Doctor of Arts degree from the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts.

5/4/80 - New York  - ABT: 40th Anniversary performance - RN danced Giselle Act II with Fracci.

5/6/80 - Rights of RN biography sold to Sperling & Kupfer.

6 -7/80 - London - Nureyev Festival: Festival Ballet - Sleeping Beauty and Romeo and Juliet; Zurich Ballet - Don Quixote, Gentil'homme, Rubies.

7/7-8/80 - Italy - Arena Sferisterio Macerata XVI Stagione Lirica - Giselle - Rudolf Nureyev and Irina Evdokimova.

7/15 - 26/80 - New York - Berlin Ballet: The Idiot, Miss Julie, Five Tangos; at the Metropolitan Opera.

7/80 - Nashville - Filming of TV program "Invitation to the Dance" with Julie Andrews

7/18/80 - New York - Report that Nureyev resigned from Metropolitan Opera's production of "Parade" due to problems with director Dexter.

8/80 - Washington - Berlin Ballet on tour.

8/80 - Macerata - Ballet du Rhin: Giselle with Evdokimova.

9/26/80 - Milan - Don Quixote with Fracci

10/15/80 to 11/1/80 - Vienna - Vienna State Opera: RN's Sleeping Beauty premiered (following "lazy and fat" quote); also short program with Wayfarer and Five Tangos.

11/6 - 23/80 - New York - Nureyev & Friends, Boston Ballet: staged by Pierre Lacotte's  La Sylphide after Taglione with Thesmar et al; at the Uris.

11/80 - London - BBC - TV: RN hosted and danced in "Aureole".

11/17/80 - USA - PBS - TV: "Dance in America" - Tribute to Nijinsky with Joffrey: Spectre, Faun, Petrushka

11/30/80 - USA - ABC - TV: "An Invitation to the Dance" with Julie Andrews

12/80 - Florence - ? Giselle with Fracci at the Teatro Comunale.

12/20/80 - Milan - La Scala: RN's Romeo & Juliet, at Rome Opera.

1/81 - Genoa - Zurich Ballet: Giselle with Morishita.

2/20/81 - Paris - Performance in honor of Yves Saint Laurent (for new fragrance Kouros): Apollo, Spectre, Faun - at the Opera Comique.

3/15/81 - Milan - La Scala: premiere of Marco Spada.

3/20/80 - Rome - Rome Opera: Giselle with Fracci

3/81 - Paris - Paris Opera: Don Quixote and La Sylphide - at the Opera and the Theatre des Champs Elysees.  Patel - Queen of Dryads.  Elisabeth Platel

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