After Bordeaux, Petipa was invited to Madrid where he was appointedPremier Danseurat the Teatro del Circo under Jean Baptiste Barrez and was engaged as the partner of the renowned FrenchPrima BallerinaMarie Guy-Stéphan in some of the famous Romantic ballets. For his Spanish début on the 24th ...
The era of the Classical Ballet has been labelled as the era of Petipa. The first decade of his tenure asPremier Danseurmade way for more successes in the 1880s, which saw him create nine new works and revive three nearly forgotten ballets of the Romantic Era –Paquita(1881/82),Giselle(1...
On the 9th January 1882 [O.S. 27th December 1881], Petipa staged his definitive revival of Paquita for the Prima Ballerina Ekaterina Vazem, with the Premier Danseur Noble Pavel Gerdt as Lucien d’Hervilly. As was his way when staging the works of another choreographer, especially the ...
Petipa’s final revival ofGisellewas notated in the Stepanov notation method; the second act was notated in 1899 and the first act was notated in 1903 during the rehearsals in which Petipa was coaching Pavlova in the title role. The notation scores are part of the Sergeyev Collection. The Pa...
Ballet comique in two acts Music by Riccardo Drigo Libretto by Marius Petipa Décor by Orest Allegri Costumes by Ivan Vsevolozhsky World Première 23rd February [O.S. 10th February] 1900 Imperial Theatre of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburg Imperial Mariin
Ludwig Fyodorovich Minkus (also known as Léon Minkus) was one of the greatest ballet composers who co-created with Petipa some of the greatest and most famous of classical ballets. He was born as Aloysius Bernhard Philipp Minkus on the 23rd March 1826 i