Stunning Ballet, Miscast Music
If amazing dancing throughout the night is your thing, “Don Quixote” is your ballet. But if plausible music is your driving force, better send Don Q off to joust with some windmills. The most famous early Spanish novel inspired this classic ballet standard which was launched exactly 150 years ago, in Russia, thanks to an Austrian composer. I think you see where this is headed. If you expect an abundance of jotas, asturias, and flamenco themes and rhythms, muy español, forget it. Composer…