"king is created as a sort of project by a rat catcher himself. One rat king, called Spider due to having eight component rats, supports this by his grudge against humanity for his traumatic creation. In an author's note at the end of the novel, Pratchett ventures the theory that ""down the ages some cruel and inventive people have had altogether too much time on their hands"". E. T. A. Hoffmann's ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"" features a ""Mouse King"" () with multiple heads, seemingly inspired by the multiple-bodied rat king. The character is typically not depicted as multi-headed"
"""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"". Set in Amsterdam around 1810, with skaters on a frozen canal and Saint Nicholas instead of Herr Drosselmeyer, it was an immediate hit with the Dutch public and was later staged by the Finnish National Ballet and the Polish National Ballet. During Eagling's tenure as artistic director, he not only maintained the classical and neoclassical repertory of the Dutch National Ballet but actively commissioned new works by contemporary choreographers such as Ashley Page and David Dawson. After he left his post in Holland in 2003, he worked on the international scene for two years,"
"The Magic Mirror (ballet) The Magic Mirror () is a ""ballet-féerie"" in four acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Arseny Koreshchenko. The libretto is based on the fairy tale ""Snow White"" by the Brothers Grimm and the poem ""The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights"" by Alexander Pushkin. The ballet was premièred on the at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. ""The Magic Mirror"" was the final ballet to be staged by Petipa and was probably his most controversial. Prince Serge Volkonsky commissioned Petipa to create the ballet in"
"and a ballet. The opera would be ""Iolanta"". For the ballet, Tchaikovsky would again join forces with Marius Petipa, with whom he had collaborated on ""The Sleeping Beauty."" The material Petipa chose was an adaptation of E. T. A. Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"", by Alexandre Dumas called ""The Story of a Nutcracker"". The plot of Hoffmann's story (and Dumas' adaptation) was greatly simplified for the two-act ballet. Hoffmann's tale contains a long flashback story within its main plot titled ""The Tale of the Hard Nut"", which explains how the Prince was turned into the Nutcracker. This"
"The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / ""Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya"" ; ) is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Op. 71). The libretto is adapted from E. T. A. Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"". Although the original production was not a success, the 20-minute suite that Tchaikovsky extracted from the ballet was. However, the complete ""Nutcracker"" has enjoyed enormous popularity since the late 1960s and is now performed by countless ballet companies, primarily during the Christmas season, especially in North America. Major American ballet companies generate around"
"The Nutcracker (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker has become the most famous stage production of the ballet performed in the U.S. (Mikhail Baryshnikov's production is the most famous television version, although it too originated onstage.) It uses the plot of the Alexandre Dumas, ""père"", version of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale, ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"" (1816). Its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by Karinska and sets by Horace Armistead. It has been staged in New York every year since 1954, and many other productions throughout the"
"and the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 2002. The ballets presented were ""Devil’s Holiday"" by Frederick Ashton, plus the third movement of Seventh Symphony (music by Beethoven), and ""Gaîte Parisienne"", choreographed by Leonide Massine. Franklin restaged the two remaining extant movements from Seventh Symphony two seasons later, aided by Cincinnati Ballet’s Principal Ballet Mistress and former Cincinnati Ballet soloist dancer Johanna Bernstein Wilt, who researched and recreated all three Seventh Symphony movements from the original 16 mm film with coaching from Franklin. Also of note were three collaborations between Cincinnati Ballet and BalletMet Columbus. Together the companies presented Balanchine’s"
"Ballet at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; it has choreography by Carlos Acosta and the Minkus score has been adapted by Martin Yates, the scenery and costume designs are by Tim Hatley. More recently, the Moscow Festival Ballet is touring the ballet in the U.S. in 2014. In 1987, the Northern Ballet (UK) commissioned choreographer Michael Pink to create a three-act version with Artistic Director Christopher Gable in the role of the Don. The plot was reworked to include more of the adventures of the Don and Sancho Panza. The story of Kitri and Basilio, which traditionally runs throughout"
"& Acteon, Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Paquita, Satanella, Coppélia, Flames of Paris, A. Mendez's Muñecos and I. Zatti's Shogun. After only one year, his extraordinary talent was spotted and in September 1993 he was invited to join the English National Ballet as Principal Dancer. At ENB he danced many major roles including The Sleeping Beauty Prince, Blue Bird and Carabosse, The Nutcracker Prince, Franz in Coppélia and Romeo & Mercutio in Nureyev's production of Romeo and Juliet, to name but a few. New roles were choreographed for him in various well-loved ballets including The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland"
"Faust"" was set to Bachs ""B minor Mass"". Béjart himself danced in ""Notre Faust"" at its New York City premiere in 1977. Faust ballets Faust ballets are a set of ballets, choreographed between the 18th and 20th centuries, based on the legend of Faust. As early as 1723, London-based John Rich put on a Faust-inspired ballet pantomime called ""The Necromancer"" at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre. In the 19th century several productions took Faust as their subject matter including August Bournonvilles 1832 production ""Faust"" for the Royal Danish Ballet. In 1833, Andre Deshayes ""Faust"" premiered in London with music by"
"of the ballet.) However, Baryshnikov, in his production of ""The Nutcracker"" did borrow Vainonen's choreography for the ""Snowflake Waltz"", and gave him credit for it in the billing. He also included, like Vainonen, a puppet show staged by Drosselmeyer during the Christmas Party scene. The puppet show foreshadows the later fantasy scenes by having a Prince, a Princess, and a Mouse King as characters. He later did new versions of the classical ballets: Raymonda (1938, Kirov Theatre), Harlequinade (1945, Minsk Theatre), The Sleeping Beauty (1952, Novosibirsk Theatre). His other ballets: Vasilenko's Mirandolina (1949, Bolshoi Theatre; 1965, Navoy Theatre, Tashkent), Gayane"
"the emperor, and her evil sister, Belle Epine. When Belle Rose enters Pagoda Land, she is greeted with gamelan music. Similarly, when the Salamander enters the scene, he is portrayed alongside softer gamelan music to produce a mystical air. The Salamander is revealed to be the human Prince of Pagodaland, and when he changes to a human form, the gamelan music is replaced with more traditional Western orchestral music. This production was dedicated to Margot Fonteyn. The Prince of the Pagodas The Prince of the Pagodas is a ballet created for The Royal Ballet in 1957, by choreographer John Cranko,"
"the ""Trepak"" and the ""Waltz of the Flowers"". The Nutcracker (Balanchine) Choreographer George Balanchine's production of Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker has become the most famous stage production of the ballet performed in the U.S. (Mikhail Baryshnikov's production is the most famous television version, although it too originated onstage.) It uses the plot of the Alexandre Dumas, ""père"", version of E.T.A. Hoffmann's tale, ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"" (1816). Its premiere took place on February 2, 1954, at City Center, New York, with costumes by Karinska and sets by Horace Armistead. It has been staged in New York every year"
"Mercure (ballet) Mercure (""Mercury"", or ""The Adventures of Mercury"") is a 1924 ballet with music by Erik Satie. The original décor and costumes were designed by Pablo Picasso and the choreography was by Léonide Massine, who also danced the title role. Subtitled ""Plastic Poses in Three Tableaux"", it was an important link between Picasso's Neoclassical and Surrealist phases and has been described as a ""painter's ballet."" ""Mercure"" was commissioned by the Soirées de Paris stage company and first performed at the Théâtre de la Cigale in Paris on June 15, 1924. The conductor was Roger Désormière. The Soirées de Paris"
"La fille mal gardée La Fille mal gardée (English: ""The Wayward Daughter"", literal translation: ""The Poorly Guarded Girl"" and also known as ""The Girl Who Needed Watching"") is a comic ballet presented in two acts, inspired by Pierre-Antoine Baudouin's 1789 painting, ""La réprimande/Une jeune fille querellée par sa mère"". The ballet was originally choreographed by the Ballet Master Jean Dauberval to a pastiche of music based on fifty-five popular French airs. The ballet was premiered on 1 July 1789 at the Grand Théâtre de Bordeaux in Bordeaux, France under the title ""Le ballet de la paille, ou Il n'est qu'un"
"music in the original orchestral arrangements. It was quite faithful to Hoffmann's story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"", on which the ballet is based, even to the point of including the section in which Clara cuts her arm on the glass toy cabinet, and also mentioning that she married the Prince at the end. It also included a less gruesome version of ""The Tale of the Hard Nut"", the tale-within-a-tale in Hoffmann's story. It was released as part of the Tale Spinners for Children series. The Nutcracker The Nutcracker ( / ""Shchelkunchik, Balet-feyeriya"" ; ) is a two-act ballet,"
"Juliet""), Aurora, The Good Fairy and Princess Florine (""The Sleeping Beauty""), Marie, (""The Nutcracker""), Cinderella and a Stepsister (""A Cinderella Story""), Giselle (""Giselle""), Elaine (""The Saga of King Arthur""), Rosalind (""As You Like It""), Romola Nijinsky (""Nijinsky""), Constanze Weber (""Windows on MOZART"") and Nina Saretschnaja (""The Seagull""). She created several parts in Neumeier's ballets: ""Préludes CV"", ""Death in Venice"", ""Messiah"", ""Nocturnes"" from ""Songs of the Night"", ""Winterreise"", and ""Christmas Oratorio"". Her repertoire also includes the rôles in the ballets by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Mats Ek, Christopher Wheeldon and Jiří Bubeníček. As a guest ballerina she performs in Munich, Moscow,"
"of the complete ballet until recent years. Recordings of the suite include: Notable recordings of the complete ballet include: The Miraculous Mandarin The Miraculous Mandarin (; ) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918–1924, and based on the story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered November 27, 1926 in Cologne, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds. Although more successful at its Prague premiere, it was generally performed during the rest of Bartók's life in the form of a concert suite, which preserves about two-thirds of"
"Former San Francisco Ballet dancer Mikko Nissinen then directed the company until 2002. Nissinen introduced Balanchine works, while continuing to commission new works from Canadian and international choreographers. He toured the company to China, Finland, and Egypt. Jean Grand-Maître was then appointed as Artistic Director. Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maître has choreographed ""Carmen"", which toured China, and ""Fiddle and the Drum"", a collaboration with Joni Mitchell while at the Alberta Ballet. In the spring of 2010 the company built on its ballet and pop collaboration by staging an Elton John production named ""Elton"": Love Lies Bleeding. Elton John reportedly was so"
"ballets choreographed by Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, Ninette de Valois, and two South Africans, David Poole and John Cranko. Noted for his performances as Jasper the Pot Boy in ""Pineapple Poll"" and as Bootface in ""The Lady and the Fool"", both choreographed by Cranko, Mosaval was also acclaimed as the Blue Boy in ""Les Patineurs"" and as Puck in ""The Dream"", both choreographed by Ashton, as well as the Blue Bird in ""The Sleeping Beauty"". He developed a global reputation as a brilliant character dancer with impeccable technique. One Scottish critic wrote about his performance as Puck in 1967: ""Puck"
"The Magic Flute (ballet) La flûte magique (en. ""The Magic Flute"") (ru. «Волшебная флейта», ""Volshebnaya Fleita"") is a ""ballet comique"" in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo. Although it has the same title as Mozart's opera ""The Magic Flute"", the two works have no other connection. First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School at the school's theatre on . The principal ballerina role of Lise was created by Stanislava Belinskaya, while the principal male role of Luc was created by Mikhail Fokine. ""La flûte magique"" was transferred to the repertory of"
"and Europe: ""Flames of Paris"", ""Giselle Act II,"" ""Don Quixote,"" ""Le Corsaire"", ""La Esmeralda (Tambourine)"", ""Diana and Acteon"", ""Black Swan"", ""Paquita"" (Lead Etoile), ""Balcony Scene"" from ""Romeo and Juliet"" (Lavrovsky version), title-role of Juliet in ""Romeo and Juliet"" (full-length, Lavrovsky version), ""La Sylphide Act II"", ""Rose Adagio"" from The Sleeping Beauty, amongst others. From George Balanchine's repertory, she has danced the following gala pieces: ""Stars and Stripes"", ""Tarantella"", ""Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux"", ""Rubies"" from ""Jewels"", selections from ""Who Cares"". Misa Kuranaga Misa Kuranaga (倉永美沙 ""Kuranaga Misa"", born in Osaka Prefecture) is a Japanese ballerina at the Boston Ballet. Misa Kuranaga"
"Comédie-ballet Comédie-ballet is a genre of French drama which mixes a spoken play with interludes containing music and dance. The first example of the genre is considered to be ""Les fâcheux"", with words by Molière, performed in honour of Louis XIV at Vaux-le-Vicomte, the residence of Nicolas Fouquet, in 1661. The music and choreography were by Pierre Beauchamp, but Jean-Baptiste Lully later contributed a sung courante for Act I, scene 3. Molière, Lully and Beauchamp collaborated on several more examples of ""comédie-ballet"", culminating in the masterpiece of the genre, ""Le Bourgeois gentilhomme"", in 1670, and the scenically spectacular ""Psyché"" of"
"in 2013 at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Music: Maurice Jarre<br> Libretto: after Victor Hugo<br> Sets: René Allio<br> Costumes: Yves Saint Laurent<br> Original cast:<br> Esmeralda: Claire Motte<br> Quasimodo: Roland Petit<br> Frollo: Cyril Atanassoff<br> Phoebus: Jean-Pierre Bonnefous<br> Notre Dame de Paris (ballet) Notre Dame de Paris is a ballet by French choreographer Roland Petit. It was premiered by the Paris Opera Ballet in 1967. The ballet is based on the Victor Hugo's novel ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"". It was the first work Roland Petit created for the Paris Opera Ballet, a company he had left 20 years earlier. This"
"in the United States and abroad, Ball joined Boston Ballet as member of the corps de ballet in 1995. He was promoted to soloist in 1996 and principal in 1999. He left Boston in 2003 to join Houston Ballet as a principal dancer. His repertoire includes Prince in ""The Sleeping Beauty"", the slave in ""Le Corsaire"", Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the prince in ""Cinderella"", Albrecht in ""Giselle"", Romeo in ""Romeo and Juliet"", Basilio in ""Don Quixote"", Siegfried in ""Swan Lake"", Colas in ""La Fille mal gardée"", Vershinin in ""Winter Dreams"", and Ivan in ""The Firebird"". In 1999, he"
"15 works by Maurice Béjart in its repertory; Béjart bequeathed much of the performing rights to his works to Tokyo Ballet. Tokyo Ballet's repertory of classics includes ""The Nutcracker"", ""Giselle"", La Fille du Danube, ""Don Quixote"", ""The Sleeping Beauty"", ""Paquita"", ""Swan Lake"", ""La Sylphide"" (Bournonville), ""La Bayadère"", and ""Les Sylphides"" (Fokine). The company has also performed modern choreographed works, including Le Palais de Cristal, Theme and Variation, and Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 by George Balanchine. ""Le Spectre de la Rose"" and ""Petrushka"" choreographed by Mikhail Fokine, and ""Afternoon of a Faun"" (Nijinsky) were performed in 2006. Tokyo Ballet has"
"ballet featuring anthropomorphized ostriches, hippos, elephants, and alligators. The ballet, accompanied by an orchestra, appears at the end of the third act of the opera, in which the character ""Alvise"", who heads the Inquisition, receives his guests in a large and elegant ballroom adjoining the death chamber. The music and choreography represent the hours of dawn, day (morning), twilight and night. Costume changes and lighting effects reinforce the progression. The dance is intended to symbolize the eternal struggle between the forces of light and darkness. Altogether it is about 10 minutes long. The piece begins with an introduction in G"
"in 1902. In 1900, Nijinsky joined the Imperial Ballet School, where he initially studied dance under Sergei Legat and his brother Nikolai. He studied mime under Pavel Gerdt; all three men were principal dancers at the Imperial Russian Ballet. At the end of the one year probationary period, his teachers agreed upon Nijinsky's exceptional dancing ability and he was confirmed as a boarder at the school. He appeared in supporting parts in classical ballets such as ""Faust"", as a mouse in ""The Nutcracker"", a page in ""Sleeping Beauty"" and ""Swan Lake"", and won the Didelot scholarship. During his first year,"
"the United States and Canada for 24 weeks with a revival of the Broadway musical ""The King and I"". A feature film about his life is to be released in 2019 under the title ""The White Crow."" Rudolf Nureyev Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev ( , ; 17 March 1938 – 6 January 1993) was a Soviet ballet and contemporary dancer and choreographer. He was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989 and its chief choreographer until October 1992. Named Lord of the Dance, Nureyev is widely regarded as the greatest male ballet dancer of his generation. In addition"
"Taken from the piano reduction score of Arseny Koreshchenko's score as issued by the publisher, A. Gutheil. Act I Act II, Scene 1 Act II, Scene 2 Act II, Scene 3 Act III, Scene 1 Act IV, Scene 1 Act IV, Scene 2 The Magic Mirror (ballet) The Magic Mirror () is a ""ballet-féerie"" in four acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Arseny Koreshchenko. The libretto is based on the fairy tale ""Snow White"" by the Brothers Grimm and the poem ""The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights"" by Alexander Pushkin."
"The Miraculous Mandarin The Miraculous Mandarin (; ) Op. 19, Sz. 73 (BB 82), is a one act pantomime ballet composed by Béla Bartók between 1918–1924, and based on the story by Melchior Lengyel. Premiered November 27, 1926 in Cologne, Germany, it caused a scandal and was subsequently banned on moral grounds. Although more successful at its Prague premiere, it was generally performed during the rest of Bartók's life in the form of a concert suite, which preserves about two-thirds of the original pantomime's music. After an orchestral introduction depicting the chaos of the big city, the action begins in"
"and the imagination. The cinematography, by making considerable use of closeups and medium shots, attempts to bring viewers closer to the psychology of the main characters. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's popular 1892 ballet ""The Nutcracker"" is derived from E. T. A. Hoffmann's 1816 story ""The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"". The ballet's scenario, crafted by Ivan Vsevolozhsky and Marius Petipa after a French adaptation by Alexandre Dumas, is far simpler and less nuanced than Hoffmann's original story. Vsevolozhsky and Petipa entirely omitted the Nutcracker character's complex backstory, ""The Story of the Hard Nut,"" and expanded a short, satiric passage set in"
"be seen in a Gala for Tchaikovsky (""Anastasia"": Pas de deux), ""Still life at the Penguin Café"" (Texan Kangeroo Rat) and ""The Prince of the Pagodas"" (The King of the East). He also appeared in the 1985 television broadcast of ""The Nutcracker"", and the television programme ""Bintley's Mozart"" (the ballet ""Galanteries"") in 1987, both on the BBC. Bruce Sansom Bruce Edward Sansom (born September 1963) is a British former ballet dancer, and assistant artistic director and ballet master at San Francisco Ballet. Bruce Sansom was born in September 1963 in Newbury, trained at the Royal Ballet School, and joined the"