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By Laman Ismayilova

Azerbaijan’s State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater will stage ‘Don Quixote’ ballet on May 13.

This ballet is very popular among art lovers and draws a large audience.

The ballet will be conducted by Andrey Ivanov, chief conductor of the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus.

Ayan Eyvazov,a young ballet dancer will play the role of Kitri, while the role of Basilio will be performed by Azerbaijan's Honored Artist Makar Fershtandt, Trend Life reported.

"Don Quixote" is a ballet in four acts and eight scenes, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. The ballet was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus.

Don Quixote, who is obsessed with stories of medieval chivalry, tells his servant Sancho Panza that he has decided to become a knight errant and improvises a suit of armor. In a marketplace in Barcelona Kitri is forced by her father, an innkeeper, to accept the offer of marriage of the rich Gamache and turn away Basil, the man she loves. Then Don Quixote arrives at the inn on Rosinante, his horse. He believes he recognizes in Kitri his "loved and idealized" lady Dulcinea.

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