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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

7/19 - 20/67 - San Diego

7/22-25/67 - Seattle

7/27-30/67 - Vancouver

8/2-6/67- St. Louis

8/7/67 - Stockholm - Staging Nutcracker (Casse Noisette) - Royal Swedish Ballet (3 1/2 weeks) (August 15 - September 1).

8/31/67 - to Vienna - 9/1/67 Swan Lake Rehearsals, morning: stage in costume with piano, evening: stage in costume with orchestra.  9/2/67 - Swan Lake rehearsal, morning: general, evening: Swan Lake performance.  9/3/67 Swan Lake Performance.  9/4/67 - rehearse Apollo.  9/5/67 - rehearse Apollo.  9/6/67 - rehearse Apollo, evening: performance of Swan Lake.  9/7/67 - rehearse Apollo.  9/8/67 - first performance of Apollo.  9/6/67 - performance of Apollo.  9/10/65 - performance of Swan Lake.  9/11/67 - Sleeping Beauty rehearsals.  9/12/67 - Sleeping Beauty rehearsals.  9/13/67 - Sleeping Beauty rehearsals, performance of Apollo.  9/15/67 - performance of Sleeping Beauty.  9/16/67 - performance of Sleeping Beauty.  9/17/67 performance of Apollo.  9/18/67 rehearsal of Giselle.  9/19/67 performance of Giselle & Medusa.  9/20/67 performance of Sleeping Beauty.  9/21/67 performance of Giselle. 

9/10 - 21/67 - Vienna - Vienna State Opera: debut in Apollo, M & A, Swan Lake, Giselle

9/22/67 - to Stockholm for 2 weeks.  9/23/67 performance of Sleeping Beauty.

10/10/67 - to Paris Opera, 10/11/67 - dress rehearsal of Paradise Lost.  10/13/67 performance of Paradise Lost.  10/15/67 - performance of Paradise Lost.  10/18/67 performance of Paradise Lost.  10/20/67 dress rehearse Giselle.  10/21/67 performance of Giselle.

10/22/67 - to London and then to Stockholm (2 1/2 weeks)

11/67 - Paris - Paris Opera: Paradise Lost and Giselle (Fonteyn and Chauvire)

11/1/67 - London - RN buys home in East Sheen

11/5 & 11/7/67 - Stockholm - Swan Lake (Fonteyn)

11/13/67 - to London - 3 1/2 weeks.

11/17 & 11/29/67 - Stockholm - first performance of  RN's Nutcracker, Friday, November 17, 1967.

11/19/67 - to Monte Carlo

11/20/67 - Monaco - Ballet de Monte Carlo: La Sylphide (Fracci)

11/26/67- Matt?

11/27-28/67 - Genoa

11/30/67- to London

12/5/67 - Oxford - Royal Touring Co.: Beauty (Park)

12/7/67 - to Copenhagen, 12/8/67 rehearse La Sylphide, 12/9/67 perform in Copenhagen La Sylphide.

12/10/67 - return to London, (1 week - 1st nights)

12/21 -23/67 - Vienna

1/9/68 - London - Royal: Premiere of Jazz Calendar (Sibley)

1/24 & 1/26/68 - Stratford-upon-Avon - Royal Touring Co.: Swan Lake (Fonteyn)

2/29/68 - England - Royal Gala: premiere of RN's Nutcracker (Park)

3/10/68 - England - TV: Nutcracker

3/29/68 - London - Royal 25th Birthday Gala: Birthday Offering (Fonteyn)

4/68 to 3/69 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, Nutcracker, R & J, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Bayadere, Birthday Offering, Jazz Calendar, Pelleas and Melisande, Les Sylphides

4/68 - London - Film of RN's Swan Lake shown

4/11 - 19/68 - Bologna, Nice, Florence - Ballet de Monte Carlo: La Sylphide, Giselle (Fracci)

4/23/68 to 5/19/68 - New York - Royal tour: R & J, Swan Lake, M & A, Nutcracker, Bayadere, Corsaire

5/6/68 - New York - Ashton announced plan to retire in 1970

5/20 - 21/68 - Lisboa, Portugal - Hotel Avenida Palace

5/24/68 to 7/?/68 - Southern Europe - Royal Touring Co.: Giselle, M & A, Corsaire, Raymonda Act III, Les Sylphides (Fonteyn)

7/31 and 8/1/68 - Balboa - Nutcracker pas (Aldous) and The Dream (Wells).  Note: On the same program, Fonteyn danced Les Sylphides and Raymonda with David Wall.

8/20/68 - Milan - Rehearsal for Petit's Poem of Ecstasy

9/1/68 or 9/17/68? - Milan - La Scala: premiere of Poem of Ecstasy, Beauty (Colombo), La Sylphide (Fracci), Nutcracker grand pas (Park)

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