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

Rudolf Nureyev's
Chinchilla Cape
 

10/68 - Teheran - Iranian Ballet: Gala for Shah's birthday

10/68 - Paris - Paris Opera Gala: Nutcracker (Park)

11/68 - Berlin - Ballet Week, Berlin Opera: Giselle (Fonteyn)

11/68 - Paris - Paris Opera: Nutcracker pas (Pointois)

11/4/68 - Manchester - Royal Touring Co. Gala: Swan Lake (Fonteyn)

11/17/68 - London - RN and MF visit Onassises at Radziwill estate.

12/11 - 12/68 - Stuttgart - Stuttgart Ballet: Giselle (Haydee)

12/24/68 - Holland - Dutch National: Monument for a Dead Boy.

1/69 - Paris - Paris Opera: Giselle (Pontois), Poem of Ecstasy, Nutcracker grand pas.

1/14 - 15/69 - Stuttgart - Stuttgart Ballet: Swan Lake (Haydee)

3/22/69 - London - TV-BBC: Pelleas rehearsal (Fonteyn)

3/26/69 - London - Royal, RAD Gala, Fonteyn's 35th anniversary:  premiere of Pelleas and Melisande

3/27/69 - London - Royal: premiere of RN's Raymonda Act III by main company

4/69 to 3/70 - London - RN repertoire at Covent Garden: Giselle, Nutcracker, R & J, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake, Bayadere, Corsaire, Jazz Calendar, M & A, Raymonda Act III, Ropes of Time

4/9 - 11/69 - Barcelona - Dutch National: Giselle, Monument for a Dead Boy

4/22/69 to 6/1/69 - New York - Royal Tour: Swan Lake, Pelleas and Melisande, Raymonda Act III, Jazz Calendar, Bayadere, Beauty, R & J.

7/69 - Nervi - Festival, Dutch National: Monument for a Dead Boy, Nutcracker pas (Park)

1969 - Austria - Stamp issued of Fonteyn and Nureyev in Swan Lake to commemorate 100th anniversary of the Vienna State Opera House

9/69 - Milan - La Scala: Nutcracker, Giselle

10/69 -   - In interview in teenage girls' magazine RN said "I want to try everything ... All in ten years.  For that's about the end of my dancing life."

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