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Rudolf Nureyev


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

December 1972

Kelvin Coe and Marilyn Rowe win silver medals in Moscow.

June 1973

Rudolf Nureyev dies.

6 January 1993

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

Rudolf Nureyev’s Raymonda has its Australian premiere in Adelaide.

25 March 1966

The company jets off on a five-month international tour, which includes London, Paris, Lebanon, LA and Hawaii.

August 1965 – January 1966

Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev arrive to guest with The Australian Ballet in Swan Lake and Giselle.

April 1964

Rudolf Nureyev, the explosive superstar recently defected from the Soviet Union, arrives in Sydney.

December 1962




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