Marius Petipa, Circa 1890

Marius Petipa (11 March 1818 – 14 July 1910) - Unrivaled ballet master of the Tsar's Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg Russia from about 1862 until around 1905. He laid the foundations for modern Classical Ballet and the Russian school of classical dance, as generations of dancers from the late 19th century in turn took the art of ballet to the world. He was the creator of over 100 ballets, some of which have survived and have remained cornerstones of the modern Classical Ballet repertoire. Image File history File links Petipa. ... Image File history File links Petipa. ... 11 March is the 70th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (71st in Leap year). ... 1818 (MDCCCXVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar. ... July 14 is the 195th day (196th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 170 days remaining. ... -1... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Waltz of the Snowflakes from Tchaikovskys The Nutcracker. ...

Life

Marius Petipa was born in Marseilles, France on March 11, 1822. From the start, Marius Petipa had theatre in his blood - his father Jean Petipa was a dancer, choreographer and teacher, and his mother Victorine Grasseu, was an actress. They brought up both Marius and his elder brother, Lucien Petipa, to follow the similar professions. Lucien made a better name for himself as a dancer; among the many roles he created was that of Albert (Albrecht) in Giselle. Marseilles redirects here. ... 1822 (MDCCCXXII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Giselle, danced to familiar music by the French ballet and opera composer Adolphe Adam, and choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a Romantic-era ballet first danced in Paris in 1841. ...

Marius Petipa began his dance studies at age 7, but at first did not care much for the art form. He received a general education from the Grand College in Brussels. His performing debut came as a child in his father’s production of Pierre Gardel’s La Dansomanie in 1831 at the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels. The Belgian revolution followed soon afterwards placing the family in dire straits. Jean Petipa moved the family to Bordeaux in 1834, and then on to Nantes where Marius became a principal dancer in 1838. 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... De Munt or La Monnaie, Brussels Logo of De Munt or La Monnaie Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie (French) or De Munt (Dutch), is an opera house in Brussels. ... Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, pronounced ; French: Bruxelles, pronounced in Belgian French and often by non-Belgian speakers of French; German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French Community of... Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Egide Charles Gustave Wappers (1834), in the Musée dArt Ancien, Brussels The Belgian Revolution was a conflict in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands that began with a riot in Brussels in August 1830 and eventually led to the establishment of... City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ... 1834 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... City motto: Favet Neptunus eunti. ... | Jöns Jakob Berzelius, discoverer of protein 1838 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Marius and his father toured North America in 1839 after which Marius studied with Auguste Vestris in Bordeaux. There he appeared as principal dancer in many ballets including, Giselle, La Fille Mal Gardée and La Péri. A noted partner, his partnering of Carlotta Grisi in La Péri was spoken of for generations, particularly one partnered catch that Théophile Gautier deemed would become "... as famous as the Niagara Falls." World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Marie-Jean-Augustin Vestris, known as Auguste Vestris (27 March 1760 - 5 December 1842) was a French dancer. ... City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ... Giselle, danced to familiar music by the French ballet and opera composer Adolphe Adam, and choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a Romantic-era ballet first danced in Paris in 1841. ... La Fille mal gardée (The Badly Guarded Daughter or The Wayward Daughter or The Misbehaved Daughter) is a comic ballet in three acts, which was choreographed by Sir Frederick Aston, with music by Ferdinand Hérold. ... La Péri (English: The Peri), or The Flower of Immortality, is a 1912 ballet in one act by Jewish-French composer Paul Dukas, originally choreographed by Ivan Clustine and first performed in Paris, about a mans search for immortality and encounter with a mythological Peri. ... We dont have an article called Carlotta grisi Start this article Search for Carlotta grisi in. ... La Péri (English: The Peri), or The Flower of Immortality, is a 1912 ballet in one act by Jewish-French composer Paul Dukas, originally choreographed by Ivan Clustine and first performed in Paris, about a mans search for immortality and encounter with a mythological Peri. ... Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. ... For other uses, see Niagara Falls (disambiguation). ...

In Bordeaux Marius Petipa also choreographed his own works, including La Jolie Bordelaise, La Vendange, L’Intrigue Amoureuse and Le Langage des Fleurs. Following the failure of the impresario in Bordeaux, Marius was immediately engaged at the King’s Theatre, Madrid. He remained in Spain as a dancer for four years, also studying Spanish dance'. This influence led him to choreograph other works, including Carmen et Son Toréro, La Perle de Séville, L’Aventure d’une Fille de Madrid, La Fleur de Grenade, and Départ Pour la Course des Taureaux. City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ... City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ... Madrid is the capital and largest city in Spain, as well as in the province and the autonomous community of the same name. ...

Following a love affair with the Marquis de Chateaubriand, Petipa was obliged to leave Spain. On May 24, 1847 Petipa went to the Tsar's Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg at the suggestion of ballet master Titus. He was offered a contract there for one year as a principal dancer, replacing another Frenchman, Emile Gredlu, who was leaving. Petipa was alarmed to discover that the company had just begun a four-month holiday, but his concern turned to delight on learning that he would receive full pay for the period. For his debut he assisted dancer Frédéric in mounting Joseph Mazillier’s ballet Paquita for the Imperial Ballet, and he enjoyed much success in the largely mimed role of Lucien d’Hervilly. By February 1848, Petipa and his father had produced Mazilier’s Satanilla (or Love and Hell) for the Imperial stage. Since Marie Taglioni’s departure from the Imperial Ballet in 1842 the ballet of St. Petersburg had slumped into insignificance. At the end of Petipa’s first season in with the Imperial Ballet the critic Raphael Zotov wrote, "Our lovely ballet company was reborn with the production of Paquita, and the production of Satanilla and its superlative performance placed the company again at its former level of glory and universal affection." The first ballet he choreographed in Russia was The Swiss Milkmaid AKA Leda, to the music of Adalbert Gyrowetz in 1849. 1847 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Look up Tsar in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For the US community of Czar, see Czar, West Virginia. ... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... This article is about the emperor of ancient Rome. ... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joseph Mazilier (1808-1868) Famous 19th century Balletmaster and choreographer, most noted for his ballets Paquita (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856) Category: ... Marie Taglioni circa 1831. ... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... Leda, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. ... Adalbert Gyrowetz (1763 - 1850), was an Austrian composer. ... 1849 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

The ability to mount revivals and make dances was the predictable outcome of Petipa’s rigorous apprenticeship, evidenced by his composing ballets as a teenager in Nantes and later in Bordeaux and Spain. The next step - allowing skill to ripen into creativity - took many years. City motto: Favet Neptunus eunti. ... City motto: Lilia sola regunt lunam undas castra leonem. ...

Petipa’s superiors could not have sensed the depth of his flair for ballet production (given his lack of celebrity at the time, that likely would have made no difference) when Jules Perrot was called to St. Petersburg in 1848 at the behest of Fanny Elssler to become resident ballet master. The immediate effect of Perrot, a choreographer of international stature, on Petipa’s career was to reaffirm his duties as a dancer. From performing the ballets of Perrot and Arthur Saint-Léon, Petipa did learn the value of intensely dramatic mimed scenes and the persuasive intervention of fantastic elements into everyday settings. He was also chosen by Perrot to assist him in producing new ballets. Jules-Joseph Perrot (born August 18, 1810 in Lyon, France; died August 18, 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Fanny Essler (23 June 1810, Vienna-27 November 1884) was an Austrian dancer. ... Jules-Joseph Perrot (born August 18, 1810 in Lyon, France; died August 18, 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century. ... Jules-Joseph Perrot (born August 18, 1810 in Lyon, France; died August 18, 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century. ... Jules-Joseph Perrot (born August 18, 1810 in Lyon, France; died August 18, 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century. ...

This assimilated knowledge enriched Petipa’s native talents as a superior mime, an expert character dancer, and behind the scenes, a politically astute courtier observing the state of ballet affairs. By the late 1850s Petipa must have known that the days of Jules Perrot were numbered in St. Petersburg. He returned modestly to choreography with A Regency Marriage in 1858, The Parisian Market in 1859 and The Blue Dahlia in 1860, ballets all set to the scores of Cesare Pugni'. These ballets were vehicles for the ballerina Maria Sergeyevna Surovshchikova, whom Petipa married in 1854. They had three children, one of whom became a well-known dancer, Marie Petipa, a famous dancer in her own right. Jules-Joseph Perrot (born August 18, 1810 in Lyon, France; died August 18, 1892 in Paramé) was a dancer and choreographer who created some of the most famous ballets of the 19th century. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1859 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... The Blue Dahlia (1946) is a film noir with an original screenplay by Raymond Chandler. ... 1860 is the leap year starting on Sunday. ... Cesare Pugni (31 May 1802, Genoa — 26 January 1870, Saint Petersburg) was an Italian composer of ballet music, Bel canto Opera, and various orchestra pieces, most noted for the ballet music he scored in London, Paris, and St. ... Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1943 to 1960 and prima ballerina assoluta from 1960 to 1990. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

For Petipa, who turned 40 in 1858, composition was a logical alternative to dancing. Petipa’s breakthrough as a choreographer came in 1862 with the creation of The Pharoah's Daughter to the music of Cesare Pugni, based on the novel by Théophile Gautier Le Roman de la Momie. On the strength of the success of this ballet, Petipa was appointed ballet master. He was successful in unseating Saint-Léon by championing Maria Sergeyevna Surovshchikova in a public rivalry against Marfa Muravieva whom Saint-Léon favored. Petipa was promoted to take charge of the Imperial Ballet in 1869, the year that also saw the premiere of his ballet Don Quixote set to the music of Léon Minkus. 1858 (MDCCCLVIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Pharoahs Daughter, also known as The Daughter of the Pharoah, is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa in St. ... Cesare Pugni (31 May 1802, Genoa — 26 January 1870, Saint Petersburg) was an Italian composer of ballet music, Bel canto Opera, and various orchestra pieces, most noted for the ballet music he scored in London, Paris, and St. ... Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (August 30, 1811 – October 23, 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and literary critic. ... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... This page is about the fictional character and novel. ... Léon Minkus Léon Fedorovich Minkus (born Ludwig Aloisius Minkus March 23, 1826, Grossmeseritsch (Czech Velké Meziříčí), near Brünn (Czech Brno), Austria-Hungary - 1917, Vienna) was the most popular and performed Ballet Composer of the 19th century. ...

Petipa established himself with his "Grand Ballet Spectacles", of which Le Roi Candaules in 1868 and La Bayadère in 1877 to the music of Léon Minkus were of great success. Hardly a new idea - ballets set in exotic locales had been around since the French Baroque period - but Petipa linked the ballets to current events or fashions. La Bayadère came in the wake of a widely reported journey of the Prince of Wales to India. 1868 (MDCCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Léon Minkus Léon Fedorovich Minkus (born Ludwig Aloisius Minkus March 23, 1826, Grossmeseritsch (Czech Velké Meziříčí), near Brünn (Czech Brno), Austria-Hungary - 1917, Vienna) was the most popular and performed Ballet Composer of the 19th century. ... Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint. ... The Prince of Wales Feathers. This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince. ...

Petipa’s "Grand Ballet Spectacles" called for massive forces, luxurious productions and predictable choreographic components. In constructing the acts of a ballet he selected from a variety of elements: massed scenes, character dances which provided a sense of local color, classical dances (which normally called for a suspension of the narrative) and dramatic encounters between the principal characters, set either as pure mime or in the context of the Grand Pas d’Action, as a mixture of mime and dancing.

Petipa was meticulous in his preparations, doing exhaustive research and preparing minute plans for painters and composers. He always considered, however, that choreography should take precedence over all else. He would come to rehearsals with ideas already prepared and teach the dancers what he had devised. "Without even looking at us he merely showed us the movements and gestures with words spoken in indescribable Russian," wrote Mathilde Kschessinska, Prima Ballerina Assoluta of the Imperial Ballet during the late 19th century and early 20th Century. Despite his many years in Russia, Petipa spoke little of the language and the dancers had to get used to his peculiar idioms. "You on me, me on you; you on mine, me on your," meant that you had to move from one corner ("you") to where he was ("me"). To make his meaning clearer he tapped his chest every time he said "me." By this means Petipa taught some of the most widely performed and enduring masterpieces ballet has yet known. Quaintly, this short stepped but rapid tapping gait has found its way in the books of medicine as "marche á Petipas" found in patients of a brain disorder. Mathilde Kschessinska (Polish: Matylda KrzesiÅ„ska, 19 August 1872 (O.S.) — 7 June 1971), (also known as Her Serene Highness Princess Romanova-Krasinskaya since 1921) was a Polish-born ballerina and the second prima ballerina assoluta in the world. ... Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Petipa married a second time in 1882 to a ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre, Lubova Leonidovna. 1882 (MDCCCLXXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina of the Bolshoi Ballet from 1943 to 1960 and prima ballerina assoluta from 1960 to 1990. ... Bolshoi Theatre (For the rock music band Bolshoi, see The Bolshoi. ...

Petipa's talent reached its pinnacle throughout the 1880s, 1890s, and the early 1910s - a time when he created his most enduring ballets as well as many definitive revivals of already exsisting ballets. Choreographically his revisions of the ballets of other choreographers would go on to become the foundations of future stagings throughout the world and mostly in Russia. Among these revivals were Giselle in 1884, La Fille Mal Gardee in 1885 (given under the title Vain Percautions), Coppelia in 1885, The Little Humpbacked Horse (or Tsar Maiden) in 1895, La Esmeralda, and Le Corsaire in 1899. His own ballets saw their final revisions by Petipa during this time as well, such as The Pharoah's Daughter in 1898, and La Bayadere in 1900. The 1890s saw Petipa create the Tchaikovsky scored masterpieces, among others - The Sleeping Beauty in 1890 (widely agreed to be Petipa's greatest work), The Nutcracker in 1892 (for which Petipa's assistant Lev Ivanov created the dances for based in his notes), the important revival of Swan Lake in 1895, again with Lev Ivanov, and Riccardo Drigo's The Awakening of Flora in 1894. Other works followed, including the splendid 1898 Raymonda, The Seasons, and Ruses d'Amour (AKA Lady Soubrette, The Trial of Damis, or The Pranks of Love) in 1900, all set to the music of Alexander Glazunov, and that same year, he created the ballet Les Millions d'Arlequin (AKA Harlequin's Millions, or Harlequinade). Giselle, danced to familiar music by the French ballet and opera composer Adolphe Adam, and choreographed by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, is a Romantic-era ballet first danced in Paris in 1841. ... 1884 (MDCCCLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Tuesday (click on link to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... La Fille mal gardée (The Badly Guarded Daughter or The Wayward Daughter or The Misbehaved Daughter) is a comic ballet in three acts, which was choreographed by Sir Frederick Aston, with music by Ferdinand Hérold. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Coppélia is a ballet by Leo Delibes based upon a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann entitled The Sandman. It concerns an inventor who makes a life-size dancing doll. ... 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Pyotr Yershov Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (Russian: , March 6 [O.S. February 22] 1815 - August 30 [O.S. August 18] 1869) was a Russian poet, the author of the famous fairy-tale poem The Humpbacked Horse (konek-gorbunok). ... Estado Amazonas is one of the 23 states (estados) into which Venezuela is divided. ... Le Corsaire, (The Pirate) is a Classical ballet in three acts, originally staged at the Théâtre Imperial de l´Opéra, Paris by Joseph Mazilier to the score of Adolphe Adam, premiering on 23 January 1856. ... 1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Pharoahs Daughter, also known as The Daughter of the Pharoah, is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa in St. ... 1898 (MDCCCXCVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... ... 1900 (MCM) was an exceptional common year starting on Monday. ... Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайкóвский, sometimes transliterated as Piotr Ilitsch Tschaikowsky, Anglicised as Peter Ilich), (7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1840 – 6 November [O.S. 25 October] 1893) was a Russian composer of the Romantic era. ... Sir Edward Burne-Jones painted The Sleeping Beauty. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... A performance of The Nutcracker The story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King was written by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 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Inevitably with such a long career (over 60 years in the service of the Imperial Ballet), the changing fashion in ballet turned against Petipa. Although officially titled ‘ballet master for life’, his less than friendly relations with the new Imperial Theatre director Vladimir Telyakovsky, the poor success of his 1903 ballet The Magic Mirror, and the abrupt cancellation of his last work The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly to the music of Riccardo Drigo in 1904 brought about his retirement. He retired with full ballet master’s pay. In 1906 Petipa’s memoirs were published. Due to ill health Petipa moved to Gurzuf in southern Russia in 1907 where he lived until dying on July 14, 1910. Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ... 1903 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Riccardo Drigo, Circa 1900 Riccardo Eugenio Drigo (June 30, 1846 - October 1, 1930) was an Italian composer and conductor who spent many years working with the Saint Petersburg Imperial Ballet and Imperial Opera. ... 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1906 (MCMVI) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Gurzuf (Russian:Гурзу́ф) is a settlement on the Crimea peninsula in Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... -1...

The Original Works and Revivals of Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of Russia

• Paquita (revival, after Joseph Mazilier 1846) - 1847. Revised: 1881. Music by Edouard Deldevez (original Paris staging, 1846), re-orchestrated by Konstantin Liadov (the famous additions by composer Léon Minkus were not added to the ballet until Petipa's revival of 1881 - for Act I: a Pas de Trois & a Variation for Paquita / for Act II: the Children's Polonaise & Mazurka, & a Grand Pas Classique)
• Satanilla or Love and Hell (revival, after Joseph Mazilier) (w/ Jean Petipa) - 1848. Music by Napoléon Henri Reber & Francois Benoist, orch. by Konstantin Liadov
• Leda or The Swiss Milkmaid - 1849. Music by Adalbert Gyrowetz
• Giselle (revival, after Joseph Mazilier & Jules Perrot 1841) - 1850. Revised: 1884, 1887. Music by Adolphe Adam (original Paris staging', 1841), Fréderic Bergmuller (the Peasant Pas de Deux & Danse des Vignerons for Act I, original Paris staging, 1841), w/ additions & re-orchestrations/revisions by Léon Minkus (additions: for Act I: Giselle's famous Pas Seul variation, & a pas de deux for Giselle & Albrecht / for Act II: a variation for Giselle, 1884, 1887)
• The Star of Granada - 1855. Music by Cesare Pugni
• The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly - 1857. Music by Prince Peter Von Oldenbourg (AKA Grand Duke of Oldenbourg / Prince Oldenbourg)
• The Regency Marriage or A Marriage During the Regency - 1858. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Venitian Carnival or The Carnival in Venice Grand Pas de Deux - 1859. Music by Cesare Pugni on a theme by Nicolo Paganini
• The Parisian Market - 1859. Music by Cesare Pugni
• The Blue Dahlia - 1860. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Terpsichore - 1861. Music by Cesare Pugni
• The Pharaoh's Daughter - 1862, revised: 1885, & 1898. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Le Corsaire (revival, after Joseph Mazilier 1856) - 1863. Revised: 1868, 1885, 1899. Music by Adolphe Adam (original Paris staging, 1856), Léo Delibes (for the Paris revival of 1863 he composed the scene Le Jardin Animé - added by Petipa for the Russian revival, 1868), Cesare Pugni (1858, 1868. Pungi revised the Trio des Odalisques using Adolphe Adam's original music, by adding the 1st & 2nd variations and coda, to Adam's orginal Entree and 3rd variation, 1858), Prince Peter Von Oldenbourg (the Pas d'Esclave, 1858), Léon Minkus (additional variations, 1885), & Riccardo Drigo (the famous Pas de Deux a Trois or Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, 1899)
• The Beauty of Lebanon or The Mountain Spirit - 1853. Music by Cesare Pugni
• The Traveling Dancer - 1865. Music by Cesare Pugni
• La Esmeralda (revival, after Jules Perrot) - 1866. Revised: 1870, 1872, 1886, 1887, 1898. Music by Cesare Pugni (original Paris staging, 1844), w/ additions by Yuli Gerber (1870, 1872), & w/ additions by Riccardo Drigo (Pas de Six, 1898)
• Florida - 1866, Music by Cesare Pugni
• Titania - 1866. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Faust - 1867. Music by Giacomo Panizza & Cesare Pugni
• The Benevolent Cupid - 1868. Music by Cesare Pugni
• The Slave Girl - 1898. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Le Roi Candaule or King Candaules - 1868. Revised: 1891, & 1903. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Don Quixote - 1869. Revised: 1871 (Petipa's staging was revised by Alexander Gorsky, 1900, & 1903). Music by Léon Minkus (1869 & 1871), w/ additions by Riccardo Drigo ('Dulcinea's variation' for the 'Dream scene', 'Variation of Kitri with the fan' for the Grand Pas de Deux, 1903), & w/ additions by Anton Simon (for Alexander Gorsky's revival) ('Spanish dance for Mercedes', variation of the 'Queen of the Dryads', & 'Waltz of the Dryad's Mistresses', 1900)
• Trilby - 1870. Music by Yuli Gerber
• Catarina or La Fille du Bandit (revival) - 1870 (Petipa's staging was revised by Enrico Cecchetti, 1888). Music by Cesare Pugni (original London staging 1846), Riccardo Drigo (1888)
• The Two Stars or The Stars or The Two Little Stars - 1871. Revised: 1878. Music by Cesare Pugni
• Camargo - 1872 (Petipa's staging was revised by Lev Ivanov, 1901). Music by Léon Minkus
• Le Papillon or The Butterfly (revival, after Marie Taglioni 1861) - 1874. Music by Léon Minkus, w/ elements from the original 1861 score of Jacques Offenbach, & w/ themes by Luigi Venzano
• The Naiad and the Fisherman (revival, after Jules Perrot 1843) - 1871. Revised: 1874, 1892 (Petipa's staging was revised by Alexander Shiriyev, 1903). Music by Cesare Pugni (original London staging 1843)
• The Bandits or La Gitanilla - 1875. Music by Léon Minkus
• The Adventures of Peleus or Thetis and Peleus or The Wedding of Thetis and Peleus - 1876. Revised: 1897 as Thetis and Peleus. Music by Léon Minkus, w/ additions by Léo Delibes
• A Midsummer Nights Dream - 1876. Music by Felix Mendelssohn, w/ additions by Léon Minkus
• La Bayadére - 1877. Revised: 1884, 1900. Music by Léon Minkus
• Roxana, the Beauty of Montenegro - 1878. Music by Léon Minkus
• The Daughter of the Snows - 1879. Music by Léon Minkus
• Frizak the Barber or The Double Wedding - 1879. Music arranged by Léon Minkus from an unknown source
• Mlada - 1879. Revised: 1896. Music by Léon Minkus
• La Fille du Danube or The Daughter of the Danube (revival, after Filippo Taglioni 1836) - 1880. Music by Adolphe Adam (original Paris staging, 1836)
• Zoraiya, The Moorish Girl in Spain or Zoraiya - 1881. Music by Léon Minkus
• La Vivandiére or Markitenka (revival, after Arthur St. Leon 1844) - 1881. Music by Cesare Pugni (original Paris staging, 1844 & Russian revival, 1855)
• Paquerette (revival, after Arthur St. Leon 1851) - 1882. Music by Francois Benoist (original Paris staging, 1851), w/ additions by Cesare Pugni (Russian revival, 1860), & w/ additions by Léon Minkus (1882).
• Night and Day - 1883. Music by Léon Minkus
• Pygmalion or The Cyprus Statue - 1883. Music by Prince Trubestkoi
• Coppelia (revival, after Arthur St. Leon 1870) - 1884. (Petipa's staging was revised by Enrico Cecchetti, 1894). Music Leo Delibes (original Paris staging, 1870)
• La Diable a Quatre or The Willfull Wife (revival, after Joseph Mazilier & Jules Perrot 1845) - 1885. Music by Adolphe Adam (original Paris staging, 1845 & Russian revival, 1851), w/ additions by Léon Minkus
• La Fille Mal Gardee or Vain Precautions (w/ Lev Ivanov) (revival, after Jean Dauberval 1791, Jean Aumer 1828, & Paolo Taglioni 1864) - 1885. Music by Peter Ludwig Hertel (original Berlin staging, 1864), w/ additions by Louis Joseph Ferdinand Herold (revised Bordeaux staging, 1828), w/ additions & re-orchestrations by Léon Minkus (1885)
• The Magic Pills - 1886. Music by Léon Minkus
• The King's Command - 1886. Revised: 1887. Music by Albert Vinzentini
• The Offerings of Love or Happiness is Loving - 1886. Music by Léon Minkus
• The Haarlem Tulip (w/ Lev Ivanov) - 1887. Revised: 1902, 1903. Music by Boris Fitinghoff-Schell
• Fiametta or The Flame of Love or The Salamander or The Triumph of Love or The Flame of Love (revival, after Arthur St. Leon) - 1887. Music by Léon Minkus (original Moscow staging, 1863 & Moscow revival, 1864)
• The Vestal or Le Vestale - 1888. Music by Mikhail Ivanov
• The Talisman or Le Talisman - 1889. Music by Riccardo Drigo
• Les Caprices du Papillon or The Whims of the Butterfly or The Caprices of a Butterfly - 1889. Revised: 1895. Music by Nikolai Krotkov
• The Sleeping Beauty - 1890. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, w/ revisions by Riccardo Drigo
• The Water Lily or The Lily - 1890. Music by Nikolai Krotkov
• Kalkabrino - 1891. Music by Léon Minkus
• A Fairy Tale - 1891. Music by (?)Ritcher
• La Sylphide (revival, after Filippo Taglioni 1832) - 1892. Music by Jean Schnietzhoeffer (original Paris staging, 1832), w/ additions and revisions by Riccardo Drigo
• The Nutcracker (staged by Lev Ivanov from Petipa's sketches) - 1892. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Cinderella - 1893. Music by Boris Fitinghoff-Schell
• The Awakening of Flora or Le Réveil de Floré - 1894. Music by Riccardo Drigo
• Swan Lake (w/ Lev Ivanov) (revival, after Julius Reisinger) - 1895. Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (original Moscow staging, 1877), w/ revisions by Riccardo Drigo (1895)
• The Little Humpbacked Horse or The Tsar Maiden (revival, after Arthur St. Leon 1864) - 1895. Music by Cesare Pugni (original St. Petersburg staging, 1864)
• The Calvery Halt or Halt of the Calvery or Le Halte de Calvery - 1896. Music by Johann Armsheimer
• The Pearl - 1898. Music by Riccardo Drigo
• Bluebeard - 1896 (Petipa's staging was revised by Nikolai Legat, 1910). Music by Peter Schenck
• Raymonda - 1898. Music by Alexander Glazunov
• Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis or Lady Soubrette or The Pranks of Love - 1900. Music by Alexander Glazunov
• The Seasons - 1900. Music by Alexander Glazunov
• Harlequins Millions or Harlequinade or Les Millions d'Arlequin - 1900. Music by Riccardo Drigo
• The Pupils of Dupré or Les Eléves de Dupré - 1900. Music by Albert Vizentini, Léo Delibes, & others
• The Heart of the Marquis or Le Coeur de la Marquise - 1902. Music by G. Giraud
• The Magic Mirror - 1903. Music by Arsenii Koreshchenko
• The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never premiered) 1904. Music by Riccardo Drigo