Ballets by Ludwig Minkus

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Camargo (ballet), Fiametta, Frizak the Barber, Kalkabrino, La Bayadère, La source (Saint-Léon), Les Aventures de Pélée, Le Lys, Le papillon (ballet), Le Poisson doré, Ludwig Minkus, Mlada (ballet), Night and Day (ballet), The Bandits (ballet), The Daughter of the Snows, The Magic Pills (ballet), The Sacrifices to Cupid, Zoraiya. Excerpt: La Bayadère (The Temple Dancer) (Russian: ; transliterates to English as Bayaderka) is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus. La Bayadère was first performed by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 4 February 1877. A scene from the ballet, known as The Kingdom of the Shades, is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet, and is considered to be one of the first examples of abstract ballet. La Bayadère has been restaged and revived many times throughout its long performance history, most notably by Marius Petipa in 1900, for the Imperial Ballet; Alexander Gorsky and Vasily Tikhomirov in 1904 for the Bolshoi Theatre; Agrippina Vaganova in 1932 for the Kirov Ballet; Vakhtang Chabukiani and Vladimir Ponomaryov in 1941 for the Kirov Ballet; Rudolf Nureyev in 1963 (the scene The Kingdom of the Shades) for the Royal Ballet; Natalia Makarova in 1974 (the scene The Kingdom of the Shades) and the full-length work in 1980, both for American Ballet Theatre; Rudolf Nureyev in 1992 for the Paris Opéra Ballet; and Sergei Vikharev in 2001, in a reconstruction of Petipa's 1900 staging. Today, La Bayadère is presented primarily in two different versions¿those productions derived from Vakhtang Chabukiani and Vladimir Ponomaryov's 1941 revival for the Kirov Ballet, and those productions derived from Natalia Makarova's 1980 version for American Ballet Theatre, which is itself derived from Chabukiani and Ponomaryov's version. La Bayadère was the creation of the choreographer Marius Petipa, the renowned Premier maître de ballet of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. The music was written by the composer Ludwig Minkus, Petipa's chief collaborator, who from 1871 until 1886 held the official post of Ballet Composer to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. Poster advertising the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet¿s performances of La Bayadère