''Kalkabrino'' is a
ballet
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in three acts and three scenes, with 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
Léon Minkus
Ludwig Minkus (russian: link=no, Людвиг Минкус), also known as Léon Fyodorovich Minkus (23 March 1826, Vienna – 7 December 1917, Vienna), was a Jewish-Austrian composer of ballet music, a violin virtuoso and teacher.
Minkus is no ...
.
Première performance
The ballet was first presented by the
Imperial Russian Ballet
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Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russ ...
on 13 February 1891, on the
Julian calendar
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(25 February 1891 in the
Gregorian calendar
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) at the
Imperial Mariinsky Theatre
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in
Saint Petersburg
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,
Russia
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.
Original cast
The
principal dancer
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A principal may be male or female. The position is similar to that of '' soloist''; however, p ...
s at the première were:
*
Carlotta Brianza
Carlotta Brianza (1867–1930) was an Italian prima ballerina, dancing with La Scala in Milan and later with the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg.
Biography
Born in Milan, Brianza studied at the ballet school of La Scala under Carlo B ...
— as Marietta/Draginiatza
*
Enrico Cecchetti
Enrico Cecchetti (; 21 June 1850 – 13 November 1928) was an Italian ballet dancer, mime, and founder of the Cecchetti method. The son of two dancers from Civitanova Marche, he was born in the costuming room of the ''Teatro Tordinona'' in Ro ...
— as Reuben
*
Pavel Gerdt
Pavel Andreyevich Gerdt (russian: Па́вел Андре́евич Ге́рдт), also known as Paul Gerdt (near Saint Petersburg, Russia, 22 November 1844 – Vamaloki, Finland, 12 August 1917), was the ''Premier Danseur Noble'' of the Imperial ...
— as Kalkabrino
*
Felix Kschessinsky
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— as René, Marietta's father
*
Nikolai Legat
Nikolai Gustavovich Legat (russian: Никола́й Густа́вович Лега́т) (30 December 1869, Moscow – 24 January 1937, London) was a premier dancer with the Russian Imperial Ballet from 1888 to 1914, and also with the Mariin ...
— as Olivier
*
Marie Petipa
Marie Mariusovna Petipa (russian: Мари́я Ма́риусовна Петипа́; 17 (29) October 1857 – 16 January 1930) was a noted Russian ballerina. She was born in St. Petersburg, the daughter of Marius Petipa (under whom she s ...
— as Cigala.
Production notes
*This work was not produced with the participation of Minkus, who had already retired to Vienna in 1886. Instead, the score was a pastiche of airs extracted from several ballets.
See also
*
Russian ballet
Russian ballet (russian: Русский балет) (french: Ballet russe) is a form of ballet characteristic of or originating from Russia.
Imperial Russian Ballet
Until 1689, ballet in Russia was nonexistent (ballet has its origins in the cour ...
References
Ballets by Marius Petipa
Ballets by Ludwig Minkus
1891 ballet premieres
Ballets premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre
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