1895 Ballet Premieres - Swan Lake, Danse Des Petits Cygnes, List of 1895 Ballet Premieres (Paperback)

Chapters: Swan Lake, Danse Des Petits Cygnes, List of 1895 Ballet Premieres. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: *Paquita (1847, *1881)*Le corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899)The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898)Le Roi Candaule (1868, *1891, *1903)Don Quixote (1869, *1871)La Bayadere (1877, *1900)*Giselle (1884, 1899, 1903)*Coppelia (1884)*La fille mal gardee (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 Cavalry Halt (1896)Raymonda (1898)The Seasons (1900)Harlequinade (1900) The 1895 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet Swan Lake. Swan Lake (ru. ) is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky presented in either four acts, four scenes (primarily outside Russia and Eastern Europe), or three acts, four scenes (primarily in Russia and Eastern Europe), and is based on an ancient German legend. Originally choreographed by Julius Reisinger to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (opus 20), it was first presented as The Lake of the Swans by the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on February 20/March 4, 1877 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates) in Moscow, Russia. Although the ballet is presented in many different versions, most ballet companies today base their stagings both choreographically and musically on this revival by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov, staged for the Imperial Ballet, first presented January 15, 1895, at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia instead of the original version. In the 1880s Tchaikovsky was commissioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, director of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, to score what would become two o...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=1208264