Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre production of the ballet 'Don Quixote' . "Dance of the actress and the poet": Poet - Alexander Klein Actress M. Sorokina. Don Quixote, is a ballet originally staged in four acts and eight scenes, based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus and was first presented by the Ballet of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Russia in 1869. Supplied By: SCRSS - Society For Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies