La Bayadère (The Temple Dancer), a ballet by ballet master Marius Pepita to the music of composer Ludwig Minkus.
The scene known as The Kingdom of the Shades is one of the most celebrated excerpts in all of classical ballet and is often performed independent of the entire ballet.
The story is about the temple maiden Nikiya and the warrior Solor who have sworn eternal fidelity to one another. Through manipulations of jealous suitors Nikiya is murdered, Solor has a vision of her in the Himalayan Kingdom of the Shades, and eventually the gods take revenge for Niklya death. The last scene is a the deification of Niklya and Solor.
The ballet Cinderella, with music composed by Sergei Prokofiev, has been staged many times. Written between 1940 and 1944, its first performance was by the Bolshoi in 1945 with Galina Ulanova dancing the title role. Choreographer Frederick Ashton also staged a version in 1948.
The comic, sentimental ballet Coppélia (1870) was based upon two macabre stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Der Sandmann (The Sandman), and Die Puppe (The Doll).
A mysterious and faintly diabolical inventor, Doctor Coppélius, made a life-size dancing doll that so infatuated the ‘village swain’, he threw over his true love Swanhilda.
The theme can be related to Mary Shelley's animation of Frankenstein and the prevalence of mechanical automatons as entertainment in traveling shows in “The Golden Age of Automata” 1860-1910. Also check out Robertson DaviesThe Deptford Trilogy.
The original choreography was by Arthur Saint-Léon to a ballet libretto by Saint-Léon and Charles Nuitter with music by composer Léo Delibes.
Le Corsaire is a 1826 ballet based on an 1814 poem by Lord Byron, The Corsair. It was first staged in 1826, the primary composer was Adolphe Adam, and choreographer Marius Pepita.
Today the score includes ten more composers and has been choreographed several times. Le corsaire pas de deux is one of the most popular and performed excerpts in all of classical ballet.
FYI: a corsair is a privateer who seized vessels and cargo in times of war.
Byron's poem, which is semi autobiographical, was also inspiration for the Verdi opera Il corsaro.
The ballet Don Quixote is based on an episode taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes. It was originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Ludwig Minkus.
A Don Quixote version was performed in the West first by Anna Pavlova's company in 1924; in 1965 Balanchine staged a modern version with himself appearing as Don Quixote and Suzanne Farrell as Dulcinea.
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