Frizak the Barber

Frizak the Barber (AKA The Barber or Frizak or The Double Wedding) is a comic ballet in 1 Act/1 Scene, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music adapted by Ludwig Minkus from themes derived from Italian opera (from the works of Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini and Gioacchino Rossini).

The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on March 11/23 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1879 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The principal dancers at the première included Mariia Gorshenkova and Pavel Gerdt.

Notes

It has been conjectured by ballet historians that this was work was a revival of a ballet of the same title originally produced by Petipa's father Jean for the Ballet du Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium, where it was first performed on February 19, 1822.

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 or The Trial of Damis (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)