Which character is Kitri's lover in the Don Quixote ballet?

Kitri’s lover in the Don Quixote ballet is Basilio, a barber. Their romance supplies the ballet’s main human plot, while Don Quixote and Sancho Panza move through the story as comic and adventurous visitors.

Kitri is the daughter of Lorenzo, an innkeeper, and Basilio is a poor young man whom she loves. Lorenzo opposes the match because he wants Kitri to marry Gamache, a wealthy nobleman. Kitri and Basilio therefore flee, forcing the lovers to use wit, disguises, and Basilio’s celebrated mock-suicide trick to overcome the proposed marriage.

The ballet was choreographed by Marius Petipa and set to music by Ludwig Minkus. Its first production appeared in Moscow in 1869. Although inspired by episodes and characters from Cervantes, the ballet’s central love story is largely a theatrical invention rather than the principal storyline of the novel.

The names around Kitri are easy to mix up: Lorenzo is her father, Gamache is her unwanted suitor, and Espada is a toreador. Basilio is the character identified as her beloved and eventual husband.