Ballet Review: ‘Don Quixote’: A Fantastic Quest for Dreams of Nobility

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CHICAGO—“Don Quixote” was scheduled for February 2022 but was put on hold because of COVID. Now, the Joffrey Ballet has mounted it on the Lyric Opera stage, going all out to make up for the delay. The exhilarating presentation was worth the wait.

While there is no stinting on the production values of the show, and the athletic dancers are in top form, its spectacle doesn’t drown out the meaning and the philosophy of the recent, uplifting adaptations.

Betty Mohr
Betty Mohr
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As an arts writer and movie/theater/opera critic, Betty Mohr has been published in the Chicago Sun-Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Australian, The Dramatist, the SouthtownStar, the Post Tribune, The Herald News, The Globe and Mail in Toronto, and other publications.
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