The Little Humpbacked Horse (ballet)

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Important Ballets & *Revivals of Marius Petipa

*Paquita (1847, *1881)
*Le Corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899)
The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898)
Le Roi Candaule (1868, *1891, *1903)
Don Quixote (1869, *1871)
La Bayadère (1877, *1900)
*Giselle (1884, 1899, 1903)
*Coppélia (1884)
*La Fille Mal Gardée (1885)
*La Esmeralda (1886, 1899)
The Talisman (1889)
The Sleeping Beauty (1890)
The Nutcracker (1892)
Cinderella (1893)
The Awakening of Flora (1894)
*Swan Lake (1895)
*The Little Humpbacked Horse (1895)
The Cavalry Halt (1896)
Raymonda (1898)
The Seasons (1900)
Harlequinade (1900)

The Little Humpbacked Horse, or The Tsar Maiden (aka Konyok Gorbunok ili Tsar-Devitsa, or Le Petit cheval bossu, ou La Tsar-Demoiselle) Magic Ballet in 4 Acts-8 Scenes with apotheosis. Choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon, and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by Arthur Saint-Léon, based on the fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Ershov. First presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 3/15 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1864 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Marfa Muravieva (as the Tsar Maiden) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Ivanushka).

[edit] Revivals/Restagings/Alternate versions

  • Revival by José Mendez for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre. First presented at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on December 26, 1893 in Moscow, Russia.
  • Revival under the title The Tsar Maiden by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet, with musical additions and revisions to Pugni's score by Riccardo Drigo. First presented on December 6/18, 1895 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Pierina Legnani (as the Tsar Maiden), Alexander Shirayev (as Ivanushka) and Felix Kschessinsky (as the Khan).
  • Revival by Alexander Gorsky for the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, with additional music by Anton Simon, Boris Asafiev, Pyotr Tchaikovsy, Antonín Dvořák, Alexander Glazunov, Brahms and Franz Liszt. First presented at the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on November 25, 1901 in Moscow, Russia. Principal Dancers - Natalia Roslavleva (as the Tsar Maiden) and Alexander Gorsky (as Ivansuchka).
  • Restaging by Alexander Gorsky of his 1901 revival for the Imperial Ballet, with musical additions and revisions to Pugni's score by Riccardo Drigo. First presented at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre on December 16, 1912. Principal Dancers - Tamara Karsavina (as the Tsar Maiden) and Nikolai Legat (as Ivanushka).

[edit] Notes

  • In an effort to appeal to the tastes of his Imperial Russian audience, Saint-Léon concluded the ballet with a Grand divertissement celebrating all the different nations of Russia, beginning with a Grand cortège to a march by the composer titled The Peoples of Russia. The Grand divertissement included the choreographer's own balletic version of Russian national dance.
  • Petipa's 1895 revival included a new prologue and apotheosis, as well as additional variations for the Ballerina Legnani written by Riccardo Drigo.
  • Alexander Radunsky choreographed his own version to a score by Rodion Shchedrin for the Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow, in 1960. The choregrapher Igor Belsky utilized Schedrin's score in his staging for the Maly Theatre in Leningrad in 1963. The Radunsky—Shchedrin version was filmed in 1961 with Maya Plisetskaya as the Tsar Maiden and Vladimir Vasiliev as Ivanushka.
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The Ballets and *Revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia

*Paquita (1847) · *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) · 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) · *La Péri (1872) · Camargo (1872) · *Le Papillon (1874) · *Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (1874) · The Bandits (1875) · The Adventures of Peleus (1876, *1897) · A Midsummer Night's Dream (1876) · 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) · *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) · The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886) · *Fiametta (1887) · The Vestal (1888) · The Talisman (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 Calvary Halt (1896) · The Pearl (1896) · Bluebeard (1896) · Raymonda (1898) · Les Ruses d'amour (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)