Dishing The Dirt On Nureyev, MacMillan, And Ashton

“Sir Peter Wright, the leading producer-choreographer, … now aged 90 and still working, … is publishing a memoir that will reveal the extreme tensions and rivalries between some of the most brilliant but often highly strung artists.” For instance, he remembers Rudolf Nureyev being “unbearably rude” to Margot Fonteyn, who “would just shrug her shoulders.”