 American choreographer George Balanchine famously created a modern version in 1965 for the New York City Ballet to the music of Nicolas Nabokov, with Balanchine himself appearing as Don Quixote and Suzanne Farrell as Dulcinea and Francisco Moncion as Merlin.This production had nothing to do with the Minkus version.It was only given until the mid-1970s and then taken out of the repertory of the company.