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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 Tue, 16 Mar 2010

Changes to the playbill
On 21 March at 19.00 at the Mariinsky Theatre
instead of the ballet The Fountain of Bakhchisarai there will be a performance of Giselle.
Tickets remain valid.

On 26 March at 19.00 at the Mariinsky Theatre
instead of the ballet The Fountain of Bakhchisarai there will be a performance of Giselle.
Tickets remain valid.

On 7 April at 19.00 at the Mariinsky Theatre
instead of the ballet Diana Vishneva: Beauty in motion there will be a performance of Giselle.
Tickets remain valid.

The fourth concert of the fourteenth subscription
Yuri Bashmet and the “Moscow Soloists” Chamber Ensemble
at the Concert Hall
has been moved from 21 April to 19 April.
Tickets remain valid.

The sixth concert of the nineteenth subscription,
previously planned for 17 June, has been changed to 26 June.
Tickets remain valid. Diana Vishneva: Beauty in motion