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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
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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.
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