Don Quixote : (Kitri's Wedding) : a Ballet in Three Acts

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Ballet performance.
At head of title: The National Video Corporation presents American Ballet Theatre in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of.
"NVC Arts"--Container.
Originally produced in June 1983 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York City.
Program content: c1983.
Special features: Cast and characters [text feature].
Introduction -- Prologue -- Act 1: The market square in Barcelona: Start Act 1 -- Guitar -- Kitri's father -- Gamache -- Seguidilla -- Street dancer, toreador and Espada -- Don Quixote -- Pas d'action and adagio -- Flower girls -- Coda -- Act 2, Scene 1: The Gypsy encampment: Start Act 2 -- Gypsies -- Windmills -- Dream -- Dryad fairy -- Coda -- Act 2, Scene 2: Tavern: Entry of guests -- Basil & Kitri -- Espada's variation -- Basil's death -- End of Act 2 -- Act 3: The wedding: March -- Gamache & Basil's friends -- Girls' entrance -- Pas de deux -- Variations -- Coda & grand finale -- Bows/credits.
Principal dancers, Mikhail Baryshnikov (Basil), Cynthia Harvey (Kitri), Richard Schafer (Don Quixote), Brian Adams (Sancho Panza), Victor Barbee (Gamache), Frank Smith (Lorenzo), Patrick Bissell (Espada), Susan Jaffe (Mercedes in the dream), Cheryl Yeager (Amour), Elaine Kudo and Christine Spizzo (Flower girls), Gilma Bustillo (Mercedes a street dancer), Valerie Madonia (Dulcinea); corps de ballet, American Ballet Theatre ; Orchestra of American Ballet Theatre ; Paul Connelly, conductor.
Set in sunny Spain, Don Quixote has always been popular in icy Russia. Choreographed by Mikhail Baryshnikov after Petipa and Gorsky for American Ballet Theatre, it is again a pretext for marvelous dancing. The plot is simple: in Barcelona, young Kitri and her lover Basilio must outwit her father, who wants her to marry the rich Gamache. Kitri's incidental protector is Don Quixote, who sees the feminine ideal in all the women he meets. The path of the plotting lovers travels through a tavern, a gypsy camp, a windmill attack, a fake suicide, and finally a festive wedding. Baryshnikov both pays homage to and revitalizes one of the most popular and joyful ballets in the surviving Russian imperial ballet's repertory.
DVD; NTSC, Region 1; full screen presentation ; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo.
Contents: Don Quixote;

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