The Parisian Market or Le Marché des Innocents
1859 comic ballet by Marius Petipa and Cesare Pugni
The Parisian Market (aka Le Marché des parisien or Les Marché des Innocents) is a comic ballet in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni.[1]
First presented by the Imperial Ballet under the title Le Marché des parisien on 5 May [O.S. 23 April] 1859 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal dancers: Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as Lizetta), Marius Petipa (as Simon), and Timofei Stukolkin (as the Marquis Megrèle).[1]
Revivals/Restagings
- Restaged by Marius Petipa for the Ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique, (AKA The Paris Opera) under the title Les Marché des Innocents. First presented on 29 May 1861. For this production Petipa changed the names of the characters Lizetta and Marquis Megrèle to Gloriette and Lindor. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as Gloriette), and Louis Mérante (as Lindor).
- Revival by Lev Ivanov for the Imperial Ballet. First presented for the Imperial court at the theatre of Krasnoe Selo, St. Petersburg, on July 6–18, 1892.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet. First presented at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterbsurg, on January 8–20, 1895. Principal Dancers - Maria Anderson (as Lizetta), Sergei Litavkin (as Simon), Enrico Cecchetti (as the Marquis Megrèle)[1]
References
- ^ a b c Petipa Society website
Sources
- Marius Petipa Society: The Parisian Market
Further reading
- Nadine Meisner, 2019: Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master. OUP ISBN 9780190659301
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The ballets and *revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia
- Paquita (*1847, *1881)
- Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (*1848)
- Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid (1849)
- Giselle (*1850, *1884, *1899, *1903)
- The Star of Granada (1855)
- The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857)
- Le Corsaire (*1858, *1863, *1868, *1885, *1899)
- A Marriage During the Regency (1858)
- The Parisian Market (1859, *1861)
- The Blue Dahlia (1860, *1875)
- Terpsichore (1861)
- The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898)
- The Beauty of Lebanon (1863)
- The Traveling Dancer (1864)
- Florida (1866)
- Titania (1866)
- Faust (*1867)
- The Benevolent Cupid (1868)
- The Slave (1868)
- Le Roi Candaule (1868, *1891, *1903)
- Don Quixote (1869, *1871)
- Trilby (1870)
- Catarina (*1870)
- The Two Stars (1871)
- Camargo (1872)
- Le Papillon (*1874)
- Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (*1874, *1892)
- The Bandits (1875)
- The Adventures of Peleus (1876, *1897)
- La Bayadère (1877, *1900)
- Roxana (1878)
- Ariadne (1878)
- The Daughter of the Snows (1879)
- Frizak the Barber (1879)
- Mlada (1879, *1896)
- La Fille du Danube (*1880)
- Zoraiya (1881)
- La Vivandière (as "Markitenka") (*1881)
- Pâquerette (*1882)
- The Night and the Day (1883)
- Pygmalion (1883)
- Coppélia (*1884)
- Giselle (*1884, 1899, 1903)
- Le Diable à Quatre (as "The Willful Wife") (*1885)
- La Fille Mal Gardée (*1885)
- The Magic Pills (1886)
- The King's Command (1886, *1887, *1900)
- La Esmeralda (*1886, *1899)
- The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886)
- * Fiametta (1887)
- The Vestal (1888)
- The Talisman (1889, *1895)
- The Enchanted Forest (*1889)
- The Caprices of a Butterfly (1889, *1895)
- The Sleeping Beauty (1890)
- Nénuphar (1890)
- Kalkabrino (1891)
- A Fairy Tale (1891)
- La Sylphide (*1892)
- The Nutcracker (1892)
- Cinderella (1893)
- The Awakening of Flora (1894)
- Swan Lake (*1895)
- The Little Humpbacked Horse (as "The Tsar Maiden") (*1895)
- The Cavalry Halt (1896)
- The Pearl (1896)
- Bluebeard (1896)
- Raymonda (1898)
- Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900)
- The Seasons (1900)
- Harlequinade (1900)
- The Heart of the Marquis (1902)
- The Magic Mirror (1903)
- The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)
