Don Quixote

:This page is about the fictional character. For the spacecraft, see Don Quijote (space mission).

Films and Iconography

Several films are based on the story of Don Quixote, including:

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• Don Quixote (1933), directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
• ??? ????? (1957, a Soviet production by Grigori Kozintsev
• Man of La Mancha (1972), directed by Arthur Hiller (also a stage musical by Dale Wasserman)
• El Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes (1991), a television miniseries directed by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
• Don Quixote, begun by Orson Welles but never finished; a reshaped version by Jesus Franco was released in (1992)
• Don Quixote (2000), directed by Peter Yates
• Lost in La Mancha (2002) is a documentary movie about Terry Gilliam's failed attempt to make a movie adaptation of Don Quixote.

Hanna-Barbera released a short-lived children's cartoon based on the story called Don Coyote and Sancho Panda. Other than the anthropomorphic main characters, the other roles' species have not been changed, and use the original names.

Related Topics:
Hanna-Barbera - Don Coyote and Sancho Panda - Anthropomorphic

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Don Quixote inspired a large number of illustrators, painters and draughtsmen such as Gustave Doré, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali and Antonio de La Gandara.

Related Topics:
Gustave Doré - Pablo Picasso - Salvador Dali - Antonio de La Gandara

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In Bolivia, Don Quixote became a symbol for justice in a series of paintings by the muralist, Walter Solón Romero. These were painted during many years of dictatorships that led to Solón´s arrest and torture.

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Don Quichotte, opera by Jules Massenet, premiered at Monte Carlo Opera on February 24, 1910. In the title role at the first performance was the legendary Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin, for who the part was written.

Related Topics:
Jules Massenet - Feodor Chaliapin

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There is also Master Peter's Puppet Show, an opera by Manuel de Falla based on an episode from Book II. Also based on an episode from the novel is Die Hochzeit des Camacho, an early opera by Felix Mendelssohn.

Related Topics:
Master Peter's Puppet Show - Manuel de Falla - Felix Mendelssohn

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Richard Strauss composed the tone poem Don Quixote, subtitling it "Introduction, Theme with Variations, and Finale" and 'Fantastic Variations for Large Orchestra on a Theme of Knightly Character.' The music is full of musical tics, pops, and other random sounds symbolizing Don Quixote's insanity, and they increase in volume and frequency as the music develops.

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Georg Philipp Telemann wrote an orchestral suite entitled "Burlesque Don Quixotte".

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Georg Philipp Telemann - Suite

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In 1973 Rudolf Nureyev and Sir Robert Helpmann filmed a ballet Don Quixote over 25 days in 40 degree heat in Melbourne's Essendon airport hangar, and is considered one of Australia's greatest artistic achievements.

Related Topics:
Rudolf Nureyev - Sir Robert Helpmann - Ballet

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