Rudolf Nureyev Movies

Scenes from the ballet Petrushka, performed by the Paris Opera Ballet at the National Opera Theatre.

Shakespeare's heartbreaking tale, Nureyev's blazing ballet. Sumptuous costumes and sets transport you to Renaissance Verona, its piazza bustling...

Experience Rudolf Nureyev's sumptuous landmark 1995 production of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet at the Opéra Bastille, starring Monique...

At her christening, Princess Aurora is granted all perfections and qualities by her godmothers. The old Fairy Carabosse, who was forgotten as guest...

The 1979 production of L'Après-midi d'un faune by Vaslav Nijinsky. Staged by Rudolf Nureyev and Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet and set to...

Inspired by the choreography of Marius Petipa and set to Minkus’ spirited score, Rudolf Nureyev’s spectacular ballet is no less than a...

Ballet luminary Rudolf Nureyev choreographed this spectacular 1972 National Ballet of Canada production of Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty," and also...

Choreography from Nureyev filmed under the choreographer’s direction for television, in a studio close to Milan with the outstanding tragic...

The personal and professional lives of aspiring dancers at New York's American Ballet Theatre School are chronicled in this documentary.

Entire ballet filmed in color for Antenne 2 TV channel in December 1983, with Noella Pontois, Rudolf Nureyev, Jean Guizerix and the Paris Opera...

In 2012, the Opéra national de Paris mounted a new production of Rudolf Nureyev's celebrated re-interpretation of the Minkus–Petipa...

1979 production of the ballet classic starring Rudolf Nureyev and featuring the Bavarian State Ballet

Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.

Sergei Prokofiev's setting of the fairy tale "Cinderella" premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in 1945. In 1986, Rudolf Nureyev, then ballet...

This historic performance from 1968 captures Rudolf Nureyev at the peak of his career. Nureyev's legendary performance makes this the definitive...

At the Nureyev Festival at the London Coliseum in July 1983, Rudolf Nureyev danced the faun as part of a Homage to Diaghilev in a mixed bill of...

The Royal Ballet's 1980 production of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet.