"of Tchaikovsky's ""Swan Lake"" after the composer's death. In many cases ballets were still short scenes within operas, to enable scenery or costume changes. Perhaps the best-known example of ballet music that is part of an opera is the ""Dance of the Hours"" from Amilcare Ponchielli's opera ""La Gioconda"" (1876). There was a violent change in mood when Igor Stravinsky's ballet ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913) was performed. The music was modernist and dissonant, and the movements were highly stylized. In 1924 George Antheil wrote ""Ballet Mécanique,"" which was actually for a film of moving objects, not for dancers, but"
"Trois mouvements de Petrouchka Trois mouvements de Petrouchka or Three Movements from Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet ""Petrushka"" by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. Stravinsky's mentor Sergei Diaghilev had expected Stravinsky would follow the ballet ""The Firebird"" with another dance work, ""The Rite of Spring"". The idea for such a work had occurred to Stravinsky while still working on ""The Firebird"", but Stravinsky felt the need to write something unrelated to the theater and conceived an orchestral work in which the piano would have a prominent part: Stravinsky himself used"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"by the Wagnerian notion of ""Gesamtkunstwerk"", which is the synthesis of elements such as music, drama, spectacle, and dance to create a more cohesive artwork. ""Petrushka"" (1912) with music composed by Igor Stravinsky and set design by Alexandre Benois Petrouchka, was inspired by the Russian puppet which traditionally appeared at the Butter Week (Shrovetide) Fairs. In this ballet, Fokine included street dancers, peddlers, nursemaids, a performing bear, and a large ensemble of characters to complement the plot. The story was centered on the sinister Magician (Enricco Ceccetti) and his three puppets: Petrouchka (Nijinsky), the Ballerina (Tamara Karsavina) and the savage"
"Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as"
"""Petrushka"" is based on the work by Alexandre Benois and Igor Stravinsky. The music remains mostly from Stravinsky . The story is about a puppet with a human heart, but whose life is tragic. In the children’s version, the story is less tragic with comic elements, with the puppet returning to life at the end. At the end of the show, children in the audience are invited on stage to dance with the company. The work was originally presented at the Sala Miguel Covarrubias at UNAM, where it ran for three months. It was then presented at the Festival Internacional"
"first scene of the ballet. The next part, ""Chez Pétrouchka"", is the second scene of the stage work, while the final movement, ""La semaine grasse"", includes the whole of the fourth scene up to the end of the Masqueraders section to which Stravinsky added an ending which he later incorporated in his 1947 revised version of the ballet for concert performances. He completed the three movements in August 1921 at Anglet, France. Stravinsky's goal in arranging ""Petrushka"" for the piano (along with ""Piano-Rag-Music"") was to attempt to influence Arthur Rubinstein into playing his music. (A 1961 live recording featuring Rubinstein"
"to play for a Paris season given by Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company, the Ballets Russes. Monteux played under Pierné in the world premiere of Stravinsky's ""The Firebird"". In 1911 Diaghilev engaged Nikolai Tcherepnin to conduct the premiere of Stravinsky's ""Petrushka"". Monteux conducted the preliminary rehearsals before Tcherepnin arrived; Stravinsky was so impressed that he insisted that Monteux conduct the premiere. ""Petrushka"" was part of a triple bill, all conducted by Monteux. The other two pieces were ""Le Spectre de la Rose"" and ""Scheherazade"", a balletic adaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite of the same name. The three works were choreographed by"
"Cinderella (Prokofiev) Cinderella (, ""Zolushka""; French: ""Cendrillon"") Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it Prokofiev broke off to write his opera ""War and Peace"". The premiere of ""Cinderella"" was conducted by Yuri Fayer on November 21, 1945, at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Rostislav Zakharov and Galina Ulanova in the title role. ""Cinderella"" is notable for its jubilant"
"Cinderella (Fitinhof-Schell) Cinderella (ru. «Золушка», ""Zolushka"") (fr. ""Cendrillon"") is a ""ballet-féerie"" in three acts, with the choreography of Enrico Cecchetti (Acts I and III) and Lev Ivanov (Act II) supervised by Marius Petipa. Music is by Baron Boris Fitinhoff-Schell; the libretto is by Lidia Pashkova (ru: Лидия Александровна Пашкова) and Ivan Vsevolozhsky. It was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Although the libretto of this work was greatly criticized by the St. Petersburg critics and balletomanes for putting more emphasis on spectacle than on drama and story-telling, the production"
"published before its première Extracts from ""Cinderella"" authorized by the composer Cinderella (Prokofiev) Cinderella (, ""Zolushka""; French: ""Cendrillon"") Op. 87, is a ballet composed by Sergei Prokofiev to a scenario by Nikolai Volkov. It is one of his most popular and melodious compositions, and has inspired a great many choreographers since its inception. The piece was composed between 1940 and 1944. Part way through writing it Prokofiev broke off to write his opera ""War and Peace"". The premiere of ""Cinderella"" was conducted by Yuri Fayer on November 21, 1945, at the Bolshoi Theatre, with choreography by Rostislav Zakharov and Galina"
"La Perle (ballet) La Perle (en. ""The Pearl"") (ru. «Жемчужина» or «Прелестная жемчужина»; ""Zhemchuzhina"" or ""Prelestnaya Zhemchuzhina"") (en. ""Pearl"" or ""Pretty Pearl"") is a ""ballet-divertissement"" in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. ""La Perle"" was created by Marius Petipa—the renowned ""Premier maître de ballet"" of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres—and the composer Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of ballet and Italian opera performances for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and director of music to the Imperial Ballet—as a lavish piece d'occasion for the gala given at the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre of Moscow in celebration"
"at Carnegie Hall was published in 2012.) In order to gain the latter's attention, Stravinsky ensured that Rubinstein would find the arrangement technically challenging but musically satisfying. ""Trois mouvements de Petrouchka"" reflects the composer's intentions and, unsurprisingly, it is renowned for its notorious technical and musical difficulties. All three movements include wild and rapid jumps which span over two octaves, complex polyrhythms, extremely fast scales, multiple glissandos, and tremolos. Trois mouvements de Petrouchka Trois mouvements de Petrouchka or Three Movements from Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet ""Petrushka"" by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the"
"Carnaval (ballet) Carnaval (Russian: ""Карнавал"") is a ballet based on the music of Robert Schumann's piano suite ""Carnaval"", Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered in Pavlovsk on 5 March (old style, 20 February) 1910. The leading dancers of the Imperial Ballet were engaged in the production: Tamara Karsavina (Columbine), Leonid Leontiev (Harlequin), Vera Fokina (Chiarina), (Estrella), Bronislava Nijinska (Papillon), Vsevolod Meyerhold (Pierrot), Vasily Kiselev (Florestan), and (Eusebius). The ballet became world-famous due to its"
"Petroushskates Petroushskates is a chamber music composition by the American composer Joan Tower. The work was composed in 1980 for the tenth anniversary of the Da Capo Chamber Players. It is scored for a Pierrot ensemble: flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. ""Petroushskates"" is composed of one short movement with a duration of roughly five minutes. The work was partially inspired by ""The Shrovetide Fair"" scene from Igor Stravinsky's ballet ""Petrushka"" as well as by the movements of ice skating, about which Tower wrote in the score program note: ""While watching the figure skating event at the recent winter Olympics,"
"expecting to hear the beginning of ""The Rite of Spring"", but instead was greeted with ""Petrushka"". Diaghilev immediately recognized the possibilities of developing this orchestral work into a full length stage work. Thus, the concert piece became the second part of the ballet ""Petrushka"". The full score was completed on May 11, 1911, and on the following June 13, ""Petrushka"" was performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, under the baton of Pierre Monteux. ""Three Movements from Petrushka"" for the solo piano were composed ten years later for his friend, pianist Arthur Rubinstein, and are"
"many awards for his compositions, including the 2004 State Prize from the Russian Federation. Dmitri Pavlov (composer) Dmitri Aleksandrovich Pavlov is a Russian composer. He was born in St Petersburg in 1959, and graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatoire in 1982 class Theory and Composition. Acclaimed for his work as a film composer and perhaps best known for his score for the film The Cuckoo (Кукушка in Russian) directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. Apart from music for film, Dmitri Pavlov has written for ballet, theatre and orchestra. He formed Pavlov Ballet in 1992, and also arranged for the 'Spirit of Mozart' concert"
"The Whims of the Butterfly The Whims of the Butterfly (also known as ""The Caprices of a Butterfly"", or ""Les Caprices du Papillon"") is a ballet in 1 act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Nikolai Krotkov. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the poem ""The Grasshopper Musician"" by Yakov Polonsky. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on June 5/17 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1889 for the Imperial court at the theatre of Peterhof Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ballet was given a second premiere for the general public at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on October 25/November 6,"
"Russia, having accepted the position of ""Premier maître de ballet"" of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres at the behest of Carlotta Grisi, who was engaged as ""Prima ballerina"". Cesare Pugni followed Perrot and Grisi to Russia, and remained in the imperial capital even after Grisi's departure in 1853 and Perrot's departure in 1858. Pugni went on the compose for Perrot's successors Arthur Saint-Léon and Marius Petipa, serving as the Imperial Theatre's official composer of ballet music until his death in 1870. Cesare Pugni is the most prolific composer of ballet music, having composed close to 100 known original scores for"
"in St. Petersburg in 1890. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The rhythmic structure of these compositions were largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. Stravinsky's admiration for Tchaikovsky is well documented. Stravinsky's music has often been compared with Cubism. His path often crossed with the Cubists, notably Picasso"
"Tsar himself. The original choreography was created by Arthur Saint-Léon and was set to music by Cesare Pugni. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Marfa Muravyova (as the Tsar Maiden) and Timofey Stukolkin (as Ivanushka) were planned as principal performers. However, Stukolkin had broken his leg and was replaced with Nilolay Troitsky, who had no previous experience of dancing principal roles. The ballet became an important milestone in the development of Russian ballet. It was the first ballet based on a Russian story. Composer Pugni included"
"the two characters a romance rather than just a friendship. Usually Vasili Vainonen receives all the credit for these changes, but it was Gorsky who first thought of them. Alexander Alexeyevich Gorsky Alexander Gorsky (August 6, 1871 – 1924), a Russian ballet choreographer and a contemporary of Marius Petipa, is known for restaging Petipa’s classical ballets such as ""Swan Lake"", ""Don Quixote"", and ""The Nutcracker"". Gorsky “sought greater naturalism, realism, and characterization” in ballet. He valued acting skills over ""bravura"" technique ( a showy display of skills such as many turns or high jumps.) His interpretations of ballets were often"
"and from Riccardo Drigo's memoirs. Divertissement-ballet in one act interpolation: """"La Perle jaune"" pas de deux for Mathilde Kschessinskaya and Nikolai Legat —"" La Perle (ballet) La Perle (en. ""The Pearl"") (ru. «Жемчужина» or «Прелестная жемчужина»; ""Zhemchuzhina"" or ""Prelestnaya Zhemchuzhina"") (en. ""Pearl"" or ""Pretty Pearl"") is a ""ballet-divertissement"" in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. ""La Perle"" was created by Marius Petipa—the renowned ""Premier maître de ballet"" of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres—and the composer Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of ballet and Italian opera performances for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and director"
"Dmitri Pavlov (composer) Dmitri Aleksandrovich Pavlov is a Russian composer. He was born in St Petersburg in 1959, and graduated from St. Petersburg Conservatoire in 1982 class Theory and Composition. Acclaimed for his work as a film composer and perhaps best known for his score for the film The Cuckoo (Кукушка in Russian) directed by Aleksandr Rogozhkin. Apart from music for film, Dmitri Pavlov has written for ballet, theatre and orchestra. He formed Pavlov Ballet in 1992, and also arranged for the 'Spirit of Mozart' concert in Vienna, commemorating ""250th anniversary of Mozart's birth"". One of his works is Concerto"
"The Seasons (ballet) The Seasons (, ""Vremena goda""; also ) is an allegorical ballet in one act, four scenes, by the choreographer Marius Petipa, with music by Alexander Glazunov, his Op. 67. The work was composed in 1899 and first performed by the Imperial Ballet in 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The score for Marius Petipa's ""Les Saisons"" (""The Seasons"") was originally intended to have been composed by the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music and ""chef d’orchestre"" to the Ballet of the"
"of Alexander III, he was appointed as Director of Imperial Theatres from 3 September 1881. Though a relative unknown, Vsevolozhsky was a vigorous and ‘enchantingly kind’ figure with ‘astonishing insight’. Vsevolovsky was responsible for who brought about the very existence of such world-famous ballets as ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (Tchaikovsky/Petipa) and ""The Nutcracker"" (Tchaikovsky/Ivanov). In 1889, he duly instructed the Imperial Balletmaster Marius Petipa to choreograph a full-length ballet to the story ""The Sleeping Beauty"" for a premiere at the Mariinsky Theatre. He successfully obtained the most famous Russian composer to write the score for it, one Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Vsevolojskoy"
"Gizela Bravničar Gizela Bravničar (20 February 1908 – 3 February 1990) was a Slovenian ballet dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Gizela Bravničar was born Gizela Bravničar in Trieste on 20 February 1908. She was privately tutored in ballet by Marija Tuljakova and Peter Gresserov. She married Matija Bravničar in 1932. She was a member of the Ljubljana Slovene National Theatre Opera and Ballet's troupe from 1927 to 1952. Bravničar danced most of the title roles whilst with the National Ballet, proving popular with audiences. Her best roles at the stage were ""Scheherezade"" by Rimsky Korsakov, a ballerina in ""Petrushka"" by Stravinskiy."
"The work was dedicated to the pianist Ricardo Viñes, but de Falla chose Cubiles as a tribute to his exceptional qualities as a virtuoso and a musician. He later recorded the work with the Vienna Philharmonic under Ernest Ansermet. On 6 June 1916, during Igor Stravinsky's first visit to Spain to present his ballets ""The Firebird"" and ""Petrushka"", Cubiles played the difficult piano part in ""Petrushka"" in a performance conducted by Ansermet, in the presence of the composer, who had personally rehearsed the players. (Cubiles and Stravinsky died one day apart, on 5 and 6 April 1971 respectively.) From 1920"
"Bluebeard (ballet) Barbe-bleue (en. ""Bluebeard"") (ru. «Синяя борода», ""Sinjaja boroda"") is a ""ballet-féerie"" in three acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Pyotr Schenk. The libretto was created by the author and dramatist Countess Lydia Pashkova from the fairy tale ""Bluebeard"" by Charles Perrault. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, the first performance being a benefit in honor of Marius Petipa's fiftieth anniversary in service to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. Marius Petipa created the ballet ""Bluebeard"" for his own benefit"
"but one were set to modern musical compositions: three by Igor Stravinsky (two ballets, ""Renard"", ""Noces"", and an opera, ""Mavra""); three by contemporary French composers, Francis Poulenc (""Biches""), Georges Auric (""Fâcheux""), and Darius Milhaus (""Train Bleu""); one by a contemporary English composer, Constant Lambert (from the Shakespeare play); and, one by Modest Mussorgsky (""Nuit"", an opera). One work employed baroque music (""Tentations""). Nijinska's first ballet in her tentative new position as choreographer for Ballets Russes was ""Le Renard"", described as a ""burlesque ballet with song"". Igor Stravinsky composed the music, which was for small orchestra and four singers. Stravinsky also"
"that at this point the Ballet Master Petipa and the composer Drigo had completed all of the choreography and music. Petipa became extremely frustrated when he learned that he and Drigo were nonetheless required to compose a number for Kschessinskaya, which took the form of a classical ""pas de deux"" for a new character dubbed ""La Perle jaune"" (the Yellow Pearl) and her suitor, performed by the danseur Nikolai Legat. Petipa's choice of name for Kschessinskaya's character may have been a slight to the ballerina, since unlike the other pearls in the ballet (white, pink and black), yellow pearls do"
"had to be excised for the ballet. Petipa gave Tchaikovsky extremely detailed instructions for the composition of each number, down to the tempo and number of bars. The completion of the work was interrupted for a short time when Tchaikovsky visited the United States for twenty-five days to conduct concerts for the opening of Carnegie Hall. Tchaikovsky composed parts of ""The Nutcracker"" in Rouen, France. The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky's last opera, ""Iolanta"", on , at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Although the libretto was by Marius"
"music by Johann Sebastian Bach; Fancy Free (ballet) choreographed by Jerome Robbins, music by Leonard Bernstein; and a new work) ""Peter and the Wolf"" (choreography by Michael Smuin, music by Sergei Prokofiev, opening with Bruch Violin Concerto No.1 choreographed by Clark Tippet, music by Max Bruch) ""Giselle"" (music by Adolphe Adam) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""Cinderella"" (music by Prokofiev) ""Director's Choice"" (Traveling Alone choreographed by Amy Seiwert; Edwaard Liang’s Feast of the Gods; and a new work) ""The Sleeping Beauty"" (choreographed by Marius Petipa, music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) ""The Nutcracker"" (music by P.I. Tchaikovsky) Ballet MasterWorks (includes Igor"