St Petersburg, Mariinsky Theatre

Chopiniana. Le Spectre de la rose. The Swan. Pétrouchka


one act ballets

Performers

Conductor: Conductor: Boris Gruzin

CHOPINIANA

Maya Dumchenko, Yana Selina, Yevgenia Dolmatova, Alexander Parish
 

LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE

Svetlana Ivanova, Filipp Stepin
 

THE SWAN

Irma Nioradze
 

PÉTROUCHKA

Petrushka: Grigory Popov
The Ballerina: Irina Golub
The Moor: Yuri Smekalov
Age category 12+

Credits

Music by Frédéric Chopin, Carl Maria von Weber, Camille Saint-Saëns, Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by Michel Fokine

CHOPINIANA

choreographic composition in one act
Music by Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated: Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1908)
Scenario by Michel Fokine
Revised version by Agrippina Vaganova (1931)
Set design based on original sketches by Orest Allegri

World premiere: 8 March 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time 35 minutes

  LE SPECTRE DE LA ROSE

choreographic tableau
Music by Carl Maria von Weber (Invitation to the Dance orchestrated: Hector Berlioz)
oncept: Jean-Louis Vaudoyer based on the poem: Théophile Gautier
Scenario: Michel Fokine
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1911)
Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine
Set design: Viacheslav Okunev
Costume design after original designs: Léon Bakst

World premiere: 19 April 1911, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de Monte Carlo
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1997

Running time 11 minutes

  THE SWAN

choreographic composition
Music by Camille Saint-Saëns (from the Carnaval des animaux suite)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1907)

World premiere: 22 December 1907, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time 4 minutes

 

PÉTROUCHKA Premiere

burlesque in four scenes

Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1911)
Libretto by Alexandre Benois
Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Staging by Gary Chryst
Revival Designer: Batozhan Dashitsyrenov
Lighting design: Vladimir Lukasevich
Coach: Igor Petrov

World premiere: 13 June 1911, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris
Premiere of this production: 6 February 2010, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

 

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