I, Don Quixote
A ballet by Boris Eifman
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Sets and costumes: Vyacheslav Okunev
Premiere: June 25, 1994 (as Don Quixote, or Fantasies of a Madman)
Revised: August 17, 2010
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Boris Eifman’s I, Don Quixote is an entirely new interpretation of this classical choreographic masterpiece of the past. While retaining the musical score of the ballet, Boris Eifman offers a distinctively original personal take on the dramatic story going far beyond the framework of archaic artistic forms.
Eifman’s protagonist lives in the realm of his own fantasies, but creates there a world of beauty, harmony, joyfulness and love. This world of illusion is vivid and luminous, but coming into collision with the bitter and obscure reality it may turn into tragedy.