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Lucette Aldous


Colin Peasley reminisces about filming Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote.

December 1972

The Friends of The Australian Ballet NSW is formed.

1973

The Australian Ballet perform Frederick Ashton’s Monotones and Two Pigeons at a Royal Performance for Princess Margaret.

25 October 1975

The Ballets Russes choreographer Léonide Massine travels to Australia.

9 December 1971

Rudolf Nureyev dies.

6 January 1993

The Merry Widow, the first full-length work commissioned by The Australian Ballet, has its world premiere in Melbourne.

13 November 1975

Anne Woolliams comes to Australia to stage John Cranko's Romeo and Juliet.

28 November 1974

The Australian Ballet begins its long association with the Sydney Opera House as Garth Welch says farewell.

7 December 1973

Robert Helpmann and Rudolf Nureyev make Nureyev’s production of Don Quixote into a film starring The Australian Ballet.

December 1972 – January 1973

The Australian premiere of Rudolf Nureyev’s Don Quixote in Adelaide.

28 March 1970




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