Le Diable amoureux (ballet)
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Le Diable Amoureux (aka Satanella, or Love and Hell) is a Pantomime ballet in 3 acts, 7 scenes. Originally staged by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Napoléon Henri Reber and Francois Benoist. Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, based on the 1772 occult romance by Jacques Cazotte.
First presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris, France on September 21, 1840. Pauline Leroux (as the Satanella), Mazilier (as Alvaro).
[edit] Revivals/Restagings
- Revival by Marius Petipa and Jean Petipa for the Imperial Ballet under the title Satanella, with music orchestrated and revised by Konstantin Liadov. First presented on 22 February [O.S. 10 February] 1848 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as Satanella), Marius Petipa (as Fabio/Alvaro).
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet with additional music by Cesare Pugni. First presented on 24 February [O.S. 12 February] 1859 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Prinsipal Dancer - Amalia Ferraris as Satanella.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet with additional music by Cesare Pugni. First presented on 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1866 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Praskovia Lebedeva.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet. First presented on 18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1897 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Lyubov Roslavleva.
[edit] Le Carnaval de Venise: The Satanella pas de deux
For his revival of 1859, Petipa inserted a pas de deux for the ballerina Amalia Ferraris to music by Cesare Pugni based on Nicolò Paganini's Carnevale di Venezia (Op.10). The piece was known as Le Carnaval de Venise.
The pas de deux lived on long after the full-length Satanella left the Imperial Ballet's repertory. Today the pas de deux is a staple of the classical ballet repertory and the ballet competition circuit. The celebrated documentary hosted by Princess Grace of Monaco The Children of Theatre Street (which profiled students attending the Vaganova Choreographic Institute) featured the pas de deux prominently.
In Russia this pas de deux is known as either the The Fascination Pas de Deux from Satanella, or The Carnival in Venice Pas de Deux, or Venetian Carnival Pas de Deux. In the west it is known simply as The Satanella Pas de Deux. The multiple titles of the piece derives from its origins in the ballet Satanella, as Le Diable Amoureux was known in Russia, and from the fact that the music for the pas de deux had its basis in Paganini's composition for violin Carnevale di Venezia (Op.10).
[edit] Sources
- Cohen, Selma Jeanne. In Search of Satanella: An Adventure Prompted by "The Children of Theatre Street". Published in Dance Research Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1/2 (1978 - 1979), pp. 25-30.
- Garafola, Lynn / Petipa, Marius. The Diaries of Marius Petipa. Trans, Ed., and introduction by Lynn Garafola. Published in Studies in Dance History. 3.1 (Spring 1992).
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