La fille du Danube

La fille du Danube (The Daughter of the Danube) is a ballet in two acts and four scenes. Choreography by Filippo Taglioni. Music by Adolphe Adam. Premiered September 21, 1836, by the Ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris.

Revivals/Restagings

Revival by Marie Taglioni and Filippo Taglioni, premiered January 29, 1838 at the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre for the Imperial Ballet, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Revival by Marius Petipa with musical additions and revisions by Léon Minkus. Premiered February 24, 1880 at the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre by the Imperial Ballet.

Note

In 1999, the ballet master Paul Chalmers revived Taglioni's original version of this ballet for the Verona Ballet of Verona, Italy.

The ballets and *revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia

1847–59	*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)

1860–79	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)

1880–99	*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)

1900–03	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)

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