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La Bayadère

ballet in four acts and seven scenes with an apotheosis
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Choreography by Marius Petipa (revival of the 1900 production)
Libretto by Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov

Credits

Set design by Adolf Kvapp, Konstantin Ivanov, Pyotr Lambin and Orest Allegri
Costume design by Yevgeny Ponomarev

The revival team:
Conductor: Mikhail Sinkevich
Choreography staged: Sergei Vikharev
Set design reproduced: Mikhail Shishliannikov
Costumes reproduced: Tatiana Noginova
Assistant Set designers: Boris Kaminsky and Andrei Sevbo
Lighting concept: Mikhail Shishliannikov
Archive research and co-ordination: Pavel Gershenzon
• World premiere: 23 January 1877, Bolshoi Theatre, St Petersburg
• Premiere of Marius Petipa´s second version: 3 December 1900, Mariinsky Theatre
• Premiere of the revival: 30 May 2002, Mariinsky Theatre

Running time: 3 hours 50 minutes

 

The original score by Ludwig Minkus was restored in 2002 at the Mariinsky Theatre Central Music Library from the hand-written copy dating from 1876 and is the property of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Marius Petipa´s text was restored using Nikolai Sergeyev´s notation from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
The sets and costumes were restored from sketches and photographic materials from the collection of the St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music and the St Petersburg State Theatre Library.

Changes to the playbill

Today Thu, 2 Sep 2010

Changes to the playbill

Information for audiences:

The concert featuring Nikolaj Znaider as listed on the playbill for 4 October will now take place on 1 October.
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 24 October, instead of the planned performance of the opera Duke Bluebeard’s Castle and an evening of piano music, at 15.00, the Mariinsky Theatre will now be staging a premiere of the opera Věc Makropulos (The Makropoulos Affair).
Tickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

On 28 October, the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre will now commence at 18.00 and not at 19.00 as previously announced.
Tickets remain valid

On 29 October at the Mariinsky Theatre, instead of a recital there will be a concert performance of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Tsar’s Bride featuring Olga Borodina as Lyubasha.
Tickets remain valid

The performance of the ballet La Sylphide at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 30 October, has been moved to 31 October, starting at 19.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The performance of the opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at the Mariinsky Theatre, previously planned for 31 October, has been moved to 30 October, starting at 17.00.
ickets may be returned to the theatre’s box-offices

The management would like to offer its apologies