Choreography by Rudolf Nureyev. With Agnès Letestu, José Martinez, Karl Paquette …
From time to time, they print and reprint some biographical notices about me that are so full of inaccuracies and errors, that the idea finally dawned on me that I myself should write about the things in my laboured and agitated life that were liable to arouse some interest amongst lovers of art (...)
The art of music is, without question, the sole art of all the arts which brings out the strangest of passions, the most preposterous ambitions, and I would even say, the most blatant monomanias. Among the patients sequestered in asylums, those who believe they are Neptune or Jupiter are easily recognised as being monomaniac (...)