Choreography: Marius Petipa and Alexander Gorsky
Staging and Additional choreography: Nina Ananiashvili
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Artistic Consultant: Aleksei Fadeechev
Assistant to Choreographer: Ekaterina Shavliashvili
Set and Costume Design: Thomas Mika
Lighting Design: Billy Chan
Live Accompaniment: City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong
Conductor: Judith Yan
Guest Artist: Matthew Golding and Anna Tsygankova

Matthew Golding

Principal Dancer of The Royal Ballet
Guest Principal Dancer of Dutch National Ballet
Appearance on 23.8 7:30pm, 24.8 2:30pm

Matthew Golding was born in Saskatchewan, Canada and trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School and the Universal Ballet Academy in Washington D.C. In 2002, at the age of just 16, he won the Youth America Grand Prix Ballet Competition in New York, and received the prestigious Prix de Lausanne, which entitled him to a scholarship to attend The Royal Ballet School in London. He graduated from The Royal Ballet School with honours in 2003 and joined the American Ballet Theater before moving to Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam in 2009. In February 2014 he joined the Royal Ballet where he is currently a Principal Dancer; he also remains a Guest Principal Dancer with Dutch Nationale Ballet.

Photographer: Erwin Olaf
*Appears through courtesy of the Royal Ballet
(Appearing on 23.8 7:30pm, 24.8 2:30pm )

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Anna Tsygankova

Principal Dancer of Dutch National Ballet
Appearance on 23.8 7:30pm, 24.8 2:30pm

Named “one of the top 100 international dancers” in 2012 by Dance Europemagazine, Russian-born ballerina Anna Tsygankova trained at the Novosibirsk Ballet Academy and the Académie de Danse Classique Princesse Grace in Monte Carlo. After graduating she was invited to join the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, where she was soon promoted to Soloist. She became a Principal Dancer in 2004, first with the Hungarian National Ballet in Budapest, and then with Dutch National Ballet in Amsterdam.

Photogrpaher: Erik Sawaya
*Appears thorugh courtesy of Dutch National Ballet
(Appearing on 23.8 7:30pm, 24.8 2:30pm )

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Don Quixote
The eponymous hero of this epic tale misguidedly imagines himself a chivalrous knight-errant. After a lifetime reading too many novels, Don Quixote can no longer distinguish reality from fiction and he sets off in search of Dulcinea the imagined maiden with whom he has fallen in love.

Sancho Panza
Don Quixote’s loyal squire is a simple soul who does not share his master’s delusions. A faithful, hard-working, salt-of-the-earth type, his uneducated wisdom is the perfect foil to Don Quixote’s learned grandeur.

Basilio
This handsome young barber is the talk of the town. He catches all the girls’ eyes, but he is madly in love with his adored Kitri.

Kitri
Proud, feisty and passionate, the beautiful Kitri loves Basilio too. However, her father Lorenzo, the innkeeper, is determined to marry his daughter off to the pompous Gamache.

Gamache
Gamache is a pretentious (and rich!) elderly nobleman, who has fallen for Kitri’s stunning beauty. Lorenzo, with one eye on his pocketbook, is keen to welcome the wealthy Gamache to his family, but Kitri refuses to marry him.