''A Marriage During the Regency'' (french: Un Mariage sous la Régence, russian: Брак во времена регентства) is a
ballet in 2 acts, with libretto and choreography by
Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters an ...
and music by
Cesare Pugni.
The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 18/30 (
Julian
Julian may refer to:
People
* Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363
* Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots
* Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints
* Julian (give ...
/
Gregorian calendar dates), 1858, at the
Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in
St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal dancers:
Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa
Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa (27 February 1836 – 16 March 1882) was prima ballerina to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and wife of the noted choreographer Marius Petipa.
Life
Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova was born in St ...
(as the Countess Matilda) and
Christian Johansson (as the Count),
Timofei Stukolkin
Timofei Alekseyevich Stukolkin (russian: Тимофей Алексеевич Стуколкин; , the village Kozmino of Simbirsk province - , Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer.
''Oxford Dictionary of Dance'' called him "one of the gr ...
,
Marfa Muravyova,
Anna Prikhunova, and
Lev Ivanov.
In 1870 Marius Petipa restaged this ballet at the
Mariinsky Theatre.
References
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Ballets by Marius Petipa
Ballets by Cesare Pugni
1858 ballet premieres
Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg