| Important Ballets & *Revivals of Marius Petipa |
*Paquita (1847, *1881) *Le Corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899) The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898) Tsar Kandavl (1868, *1891, *1903) Don Quixote (1869, *1871) La Bayadère (1877, *1900) *Giselle (1884, 1899, 1903) *Coppélia (1884) *La Fille Mal Gardée (1885) *La Esmeralda (1886, 1899) The Talisman (1889) The Sleeping Beauty (1890) The Nutcracker (1892) Cinderella (1893) The Awakening of Flora (1894) *Swan Lake (1895) *The Little Humpbacked Horse (1895) The Calvary Halt (1896) Raymonda (1898) Harlequinade (1900) Maestro Marius Ivanovich Petipa, Maître de Ballet of the Imperial Theatres. ...
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Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes. ...
The Bavarian State Ballet in the scene Le Jardin Animé from the companys partial reconstruction of Marius Petipas 1899 revival of Le Corsaire, Munich, 2007 Le Corsaire (The Pirate) is a ballet in three acts, with a libretto based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron. ...
The Pharaohs Daughter is a ballet by Marius Petipa, first performed in 1862. ...
Olga Preobrajenskaya as Queen Nisia in the Pas de Venus from the Petipa/Pugni Tsar Kandavl, St. ...
Svetlana Zakharova as Kitri in the Entrance of Kitri from the Bolshoi Ballets production of the Petipa/Gorsky/Minkus Don Quixote, Moscow, 2006 The ballet Don Quixote is based on the famous Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. ...
The Entrance of the Shades (Entrée de lombres) of the scene The Kingdom Of the Shades from the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballets 1941 production of La Bayadère, St. ...
Anna Pavlova as Giselle in Act I (ca. ...
Giuseppina Bozzachi as Swanhilda in the Saint-Léon/Delibes Coppélia. ...
Nadia Nerina as Lise and David Blair as Colas in the Pas de Ruban from Act I of Sir Frederick Ashtons La Fille Mal Gardée, London, 1960 La Fille Mal Gardée (The Badly Watched Daughter) is a Ballet presented in 2 Acts, inspired Choffarts engraving of...
Poster advertising Carlotta Grisi in the Pas de Truandaise for the premiere of the ballet La Esmeralda, given at Her Majestys Theatre, London, 1844 La Esmeralda is a ballet in 3 acts, 5 scenes, inspired by Notre Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo. ...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya costumed as Niriti for the Grand Pas des Fleurs of Act II in Nikolai Legats revival of Petipas The Talisman, St. ...
The Apotheosis from the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballets reconstruction of Petipas original 1890 production of The Sleeping Beauty. ...
The Nutcracker (Russian: ) Op. ...
Mariia Anderson as the Fairy Godmother in the Petipa/Ivanov/Cecchetti/Fitinhof-Schell Cinderella, St. ...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya as Flora (left) and Vera Trefilova as Amour/Cupid (right) in the Petipa/Drigo The Awakening of Flora, St. ...
The 1895 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet Swan Lake. ...
Natalia Bessmertnova as Raymonda and Gediminas Taranda as Abderakhman in the Grand Pas daction from the Bolshoi Ballets production of the Petipa/Glazunov Raymonda. ...
See also Commedia dellarte // The Harlequinade is a type of theatrical performance piece, usually a slapstick adaptation of the Commedia dellarte, which dates back to England in the mid 18th century. ...
| The Little Humpbacked Horse, or The Tsar Maiden (aka Konyok Gorbunok ili Tsar-Devitsa, or Le Petit cheval bossu, ou La Tsar-Demoiselle) Magic Ballet in 4 Acts-8 Scenes with apotheosis. Choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by Arthur Saint-Léon, based on the fairy taile The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Ershov. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 3/15 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1864 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Marfa Muravieva (as the Tsar Maiden) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Ivanushka). For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ...
Arthur Saint-Léon (1821-1870) was the Maître de Ballet (see Ballet Master) of the Imperial Ballet from 1859 until 1869. ...
Maestro Cesare Pugni, London, circa 1843 Cesare Pugni (31 May 1802?, Genoa?, Italy â 26 January 1870, St. ...
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). ...
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Carlotta Brianza and Paul Gerdt of the Imperial Ballet as Princess Aurora and Prince Desire in the 1890 premiere of the Sleeping Beauty. ...
The Julian calendar was a reform of the Roman calendar which was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC and came into force in 45 BC (709 ab urbe condita). ...
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1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
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Saint Petersburg listen (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991...
Revivals/Restagings/Alternate versions - Restaging by Arthur Saint-Léon for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, with Cesare Pugni revising his original score. First presented on November 26, 1866 at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Principle Dancers - Marfa Muravieva (as the Tsar Maiden) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Ivanushka).
- Revival by José Mendez for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre. First presented at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on December 26, 1893 in Moscow, Russia.
- Revival under the title The Tsar Maiden by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet, with musical additions and revisions to Pugni's score by Riccardo Drigo. First presented on December 6/18, 1895 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Pierina Legnani (as the Tsar Maiden), Alexander Shirayev (as Ivanushka) and Felix Kschessinsky (as the Khan).
- Revival by Alexander Gorsky for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, with musical revisions and adaptations to Pugni's score provided by Anton Simon (additional musical material by Boris Asafiev, Pyotr Tchaikovsy, Antonín Dvořák, Alexander Glazunov, Franz Liszt and Anton Simon). First presented at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on November 25, 1901 in Moscow, Russia. Principal Dancers - Natalia Roslavleva (as the Tsar Maiden) and Alexander Gorsky (as Ivansuchka).
- Restaging by Alexander Gorsky of his 1901 revival for the Imperial Ballet, with musical additions and revisions to Pugni's score by Riccardo Drigo (Anton Simon's 1901 adaptation of Pugni's score was utilized for the production). First presented at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on December 16, 1912. Principal Dancers - Tamara Karsavina (as the Tsar Maiden) and Nikolai Legat (as Ivanushka).
The Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow, Russia The Bolshoi Theatre (Russian: , Bolshoy Teatr, Large Theater) is a theatre and opera company in Moscow, Russia, which gives performances of ballet and opera. ...
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José Mendez (March 19, 1887 - October 31, 1928) was a Cuban right-handed pitcher and manager in baseballs Negro Leagues. ...
Maestro Marius Ivanovich Petipa, Maître de Ballet of the Imperial Theatres. ...
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. ...
The Mariinsky Theatre of St. ...
Pierina Legnani (1863-1923) was an Italian ballerina responsible for the inclusion of 32 consecutive fouettés en tournant en pointe to the ballet Swan Lake. ...
Boris Asafiev (1884-1949) was a composer and writer. ...
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Saint Basils Cathedral Moscow (Russian/Cyrillic: Москва́, pronounciation: Moskva), capital of Russia, located on the river Moskva, and encompassing 878. ...
Tamara Platonovna Karsavina (March 10, 1885 â May 26, 1978) was a famous Russian ballerina who eventually settled in England, where she helped found the Royal Academy of Dancing in 1920. ...
Nicholas Legat (also spelled Nikolai or Nicolai, 1869 - 1937) was a Russian Balletmaster. ...
Notes - In an effort to appeal to the tastes of his Imperial Russian audeince, Saint-Léon concluded the ballet with a Grand divertissement celebrating all the different nations of Russia, beginning with a Grand cortège to a march by the composer titled The Peoples of Russia. The Grand divertissement included the choreographer's own balletic version of Russian national dance.
- Petipa's 1895 revival included a new prologue and apotheosis, as well as additional variations for the Ballerina Legnani written by Riccardo Drigo.
- Alexander Radunsky choreographed his own version to a score by Rodion Shchedrin for the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, in 1960. The choregrapher Igor Belsky utilized Schedrin's score in his staging for the Maly Theatre in Leningrad in 1963. The Radunsky—Shchedrin version was filmed in 1961 with Maya Plisetskaya as the Tsar Maiden and Vladimir Vasiliev as Ivanushka.
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Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin (born December 16, 1932) is a Russian composer. ...
Knipper Theatre, Kniper Theatre or Knieper Theatre (Russian: ТеаÑÑ ÐаÑла ÐнипеÑа) was the venue of a German theatrical troupe led by Karl Kniper which performed in Saint Petersburg beginning in 1777. ...
Maya Mikhailovna Plisetskaya (Russian: ; born November 20, 1925) is a Russian ballet dancer, frequently cited as the greatest ballerina of modern times. ...
Vladimir Vasiliev is Director and Chief Instructor of the Toronto School of Russian Martial Art located in Thornhill, Ontario, where he teaches Ryabkos Systema. ...
Video | The Ballets and *Revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia | *Paquita (1847) · *Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (1848) · Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid (1849) · *Giselle (1850, 1884, 1899, 1903) · The Star of Granada (1855) · The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857) · *Le Corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899) · A Marriage During the Regency (1858) · The Parisian Market (1859, *1861) · The Blue Dahlia (1860) · Terpsichore (1861) · The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898) · The Beauty of Lebanon (1863) · *The Traveling Dancer (1864) · Florida (1866) · Titania (1866) · *Faust (1867) · The Benevolent Cupid (1868) · The Slave (1868) · Le Roi Candaule (1868, *1891, *1903) · Don Quixote (1869, *1871) · Trilby (1870) · *Catarina (1870) · The Two Stars (1871) · *La Péri (1872) · Camargo (1872) · *Le Papillon (1874) · *Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (1874) · The Bandits (1875) · The Adventures of Peleus (1876, *1897) · A Midsummer Night's Dream (1876) · La Bayadère (1877, *1900) · Roxana (1878) · Ariadne (1878) · The Daughter of the Snows (1879) · Frizak the Barber (1879) · Mlada (1879, *1896) · *La Fille du Danube (1880) · Zoraiya (1881) · La Vivandière (as "Markitenka") (1881) · *Pâquerette (1882) · The Night and the Day (1883) · Pygmalion (1883) · *Coppélia (1884) · *Le Diable à Quatre (as "The Willful Wife") (1885) · *La Fille Mal Gardée (1885) · The Magic Pills (1886) · The King's Command (1886, *1887, *1900) · The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886) · *Fiametta (1887) · The Vestal (1888) · The Talisman (1889) · The Caprices of a Butterfly (1889, *1895) · The Sleeping Beauty (1890) · The Water Lily (1890) · Kalkabrino (1891) · A Fairy Tale (1891) · *La Sylphide (1892) · The Nutcracker (1892) · Cinderella (1893) · The Awakening of Flora (1894) · Swan Lake (1895) · The Little Humpbacked Horse (as "The Tsar Maiden") (1895) · The Calvary Halt (1896) · The Pearl (1896) · Bluebeard (1896) · Raymonda (1898) · Les Ruses d'amour (1900) · The Seasons (1900) · Harlequinade (1900) · The Heart of the Marquis (1902) · The Magic Mirror (1903) · The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never premiered) · Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes. ...
Le Diable Amoureux (aka Satanella, or Love and Hell) is a Pantomime ballet in 3 acts, 7 scenes. ...
Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid is a Demi-Caractère ballet in 2 Acts-2 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Adalbert Gyrowetz. ...
Anna Pavlova as Giselle in Act I (ca. ...
The Star of Grenada is a ballet Divertissement. ...
The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly is a ballet divertissement in one Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Grand Duke Peter II of Oldenburg (AKA Prince Oldenburg). ...
The Bavarian State Ballet in the scene Le Jardin Animé from the companys partial reconstruction of Marius Petipas 1899 revival of Le Corsaire, Munich, 2007 Le Corsaire (The Pirate) is a ballet in three acts, with a libretto based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron. ...
A Marriage During the Regency (AKA The Regency Marriage) is a ballet in 2 Acts, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa as Lizetta in the Petipa/Pugni The Parisian Market, Paris, 1861 The Parisian Market (AKA Les Marché des Innocents) is a Comic ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
The Blue Dahlia (AKA Le Dahlia Bleu) - is a Fantastic ballet in 2 Acts, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
An unidentified Ballerina of the Imperial Ballet in the Petipa/Pugni Terpsichore, St. ...
The Pharaohs Daughter is a ballet by Marius Petipa, first performed in 1862. ...
The Beauty of Lebanon (AKA The Mountain Spirit) is a Fantastic ballet in 3 Acts-7 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
La Prima Ballerina (AKA The Ambush or Lembuscade or The Traveling Dancer) is a ballet (choreographic episode) in 1 Act, with choreography by Paul Taglioni, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
Florida is a ballet in 3 Acts-5 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
Faust is a Fantastic ballet in 3 Acts-7 Scenes, with choreography by Jules Perrot, and music by Giacomo Panizza, Sir Michael Andrew Costa, and Niccolò Bajetti. ...
The Benevolent Cupid is a ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
Olga Preobrajenskaya as Queen Nisia in the Pas de Venus from the Petipa/Pugni Tsar Kandavl, St. ...
Svetlana Zakharova as Kitri in the Entrance of Kitri from the Bolshoi Ballets production of the Petipa/Gorsky/Minkus Don Quixote, Moscow, 2006 The ballet Don Quixote is based on the famous Miguel de Cervantes novel Don Quixote de la Mancha. ...
Eugeniia Sokolova in the title role of the Petipa/Gerber Trilby, St. ...
Lithograph by J. Branard of Lucile Grahn in the title role of the Perrot/Pugni Catarina. ...
Nadezhda Bakerkina as the Second Star in Enrico Cecchettis revival of the Petipa/Pugni The Two Stars, St. ...
Camargo (AKA La Camargo) is a Grand ballet in 3 acts/9 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Léon Minkus. ...
Emma Livry as Farfalla in the Taglioni/Offenbach Le Papillon, Paris, 1861 Le Papillon (The Butterfly) is a fantastic ballet in 4 acts/4 scenes, with choreography by Marie Taglioni and music by Jacques Offenbach. ...
Ondine or The Naiad and the Fisherman is a ballet in Three acts, Five scenes. ...
The Bandits is a Grand ballet in 2 acts/5 scenes with prologue, with choreography was by Marius Petipa, and the music by Léon Minkus. ...
The Adventures of Peleus (AKA Thetis and Peleus or The Wedding of Thetis or Peleus or Les Noces de Thétis et Pélée) is a mythological ballet in 3 acts/5 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Léon Minkus, with additional music adapted by...
The Entrance of the Shades (Entrée de lombres) of the scene The Kingdom Of the Shades from the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballets 1941 production of La Bayadère, St. ...
Roxana, the Beauty of Montenegro (AKA Roxana) is a fantastic ballet in 4 acts, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Léon Minkus. ...
The Daughter of the Snows (AKA Snegurochka) is a fantastic ballet in 3 acts/5 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Léon Minkus. ...
Frizak the Barber (AKA The Barber or Frizak or The Double Wedding) is a comic ballet in 1 Act/1 Scene, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music adapted by Léon Minkus from themes derived from Italian opera (from the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Gioacchino...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya in the title role in the Minkus/Petipa ballet Mlada, St. ...
La Fille du Danube (The Daughter of the Danube) - Ballet in 2 Acts-4 Scenes. ...
Fanny Cerrito as Kathi in the Saint-Léon/Cerrito/Pugni La Vivandière, London, 1844 La Vivandière (or Markitenka, as it is still known is Russia) is a ballet in one act, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon and Fanny Cerrito, and music by Cesare Pugni. ...
Pâquerette is a ballet in 4 Acts-7 Scenes, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, and music by François Benoist. ...
Night and Day (AKA La Nuit et le Jour or The Night and the Day) is a fantastic ballet in 1 act/3 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Léon Minkus. ...
Pygmalion (AKA The Cyprus Statue) - ballet in 4 Acts-6 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Prince Nikita Trubestkoi. ...
Giuseppina Bozzachi as Swanhilda in the Saint-Léon/Delibes Coppélia. ...
Poster advertising the premiere of the Mazilier/Adam Le Diable à Quatre, Paris, 1845 Le Diable à Quatre (AKA The Willful Wife) is a Grand ballet in 2 Acts/3 Scenes, with choreography by Joseph Mazilier and music by Adolphe Adam. ...
Nadia Nerina as Lise and David Blair as Colas in the Pas de Ruban from Act I of Sir Frederick Ashtons La Fille Mal Gardée, London, 1960 La Fille Mal Gardée (The Badly Watched Daughter) is a Ballet presented in 2 Acts, inspired Choffarts engraving of...
Pavel Gerdt as Pepito in the Petipa/Vinzentini The Kings Command, St. ...
The Corps de Ballet of the Imperial Ballet in Lev Ivanovs revival of the Petipa/Minkus The Sacrifices to Cupid. ...
Marfa Muravieva as Fiametta in the Saint-Léon/Minkus The Flame of Love or The Salamander (AKA Fiametta or Néméa), Paris, 1864 The Flame of Love or The Salamander (AKA Fiametta or Néméa) is a ballet in 4 acts/4 Scenes. ...
Mikhail Mordkin as Lucio in the Petipa/Ivanov The Vestal, St. ...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya costumed as Niriti for the Grand Pas des Fleurs of Act II in Nikolai Legats revival of Petipas The Talisman, St. ...
(left to right) Victor Semenov as the Grasshopper, Elena Lukom as the Butterfly, and Vladimir Ponomareyev as the Phoenix Moth in the Petipa/Krotkov The Whims of the Butterfly, St. ...
The Apotheosis from the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballets reconstruction of Petipas original 1890 production of The Sleeping Beauty. ...
The Water Lily - is a Choreographic ballet fantasy in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. ...
Kalkabrino is a ballet in 3 acts/3 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Léon Minkus. ...
A Fairy Tale (AKA A Magic Tale) - Fantastic ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by (?) Richter. ...
La Sylphide is one of the worlds best-known ballets. ...
The Nutcracker (Russian: ) Op. ...
Mariia Anderson as the Fairy Godmother in the Petipa/Ivanov/Cecchetti/Fitinhof-Schell Cinderella, St. ...
Mathilde Kschessinskaya as Flora (left) and Vera Trefilova as Amour/Cupid (right) in the Petipa/Drigo The Awakening of Flora, St. ...
The 1895 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet Swan Lake. ...
Natalia Bessmertnova as Raymonda and Gediminas Taranda as Abderakhman in the Grand Pas daction from the Bolshoi Ballets production of the Petipa/Glazunov Raymonda. ...
See also Commedia dellarte // The Harlequinade is a type of theatrical performance piece, usually a slapstick adaptation of the Commedia dellarte, which dates back to England in the mid 18th century. ...
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