MARIINSKY THEATRE - KIROV BALLETbackrepertoireMariinsky Theatre - Kirov Ballet

La Bayadère
Ballet in three acts
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1877) Revised choreography: Vladimir Ponomarev and Vakhtang Chabukiani, (1941)

La Bayadère
Ballet in four acts and seven scenes with an apotheosis
Music: Ludwig Minkus (© Full version of the score, Mariinsky Theatre, 2002)
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1900 version)

Cinderella
Ballet in three acts
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky (2002)

Come in!
Ballet in one act
Music: Vladimir Martynov ("Come in!" for two violins and string orchestra, 1988)
Choreography and design: Kirill Simonov (2001)

Le Corsaire
Ballet in three acts with a prologue and epilogue
Music: Adolphe Adam, Cesare Pugni, Leo Delibes, Riccardo Drigo and Pavel Oldenburgsky
Choreography: Pyotr Gusev (1987), based on the composition and choreography of Marius Petipa (1863)

Don Quixote
Grand ballet in four acts (seven scenes) with a prologue
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Alexander Gorsky (1902) after Marius Petipa
(Gypsy and Oriental Dances choreographed: Nina Anisimova)

Etudes
Ballet in one act
Music: Karl Czerny
Choreography: Harald Lander (1948)

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
Choreographic poem in four scenes with prologue and epilogue
Music: Boris Asafiev
Choreography: Rostislav Zakharov (1934)

Giselle
Fantasy ballet in two acts
Music: Adolphe Adam
Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa

The Legend of Love
Ballet in three acts
Music: Arif Melikov
Choreography: Yury Grigorovich (1961)

The Magic Nut
Ballet in two acts
Music: Sergei Slonimsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Donvena Pandoursky

Manon
Ballet in three acts
Music: Jules Massenet (arranged and orchestrated: Leighton Lucas, with the collaboration of Hilda Gaunt)
Choreography: Sir Kenneth MacMillan (1974)

Middle Duet
One act ballet
Music: Yury Khanon (Middle Symphony, Op. 40, part 1)
Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky (1998)

Les Noces
Russian choreographic scenes with singing and music to folk text from the Kireyevsky Collection
Scene plan, music and text: Igor Stravinsky (1914-1923)
Choreography: Bronislava Nijinska (1923)

The Nutcracker
Ballet in three acts with an epilogue
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Vasily Vainonen (1934)

The Nutcracker
Ballet in two acts
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Set, costume and production design: Mihail Chemiakin
Choreography: Kirill Simonov

"Paquita" Grand Pas
Music: Ludwig Minkus
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1881)

Raymonda
Ballet in three acts (six scenes)
Music: Alexander Glazunov
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1898), revised version: Konstantin Sergeyev (1948) with choreographic fragments: Fyodor Lopukhov

Romeo and Juliet
Ballet in three acts (thirteen scenes)
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography: Leonid Lavrovsky (1940)

Le Sacre du printemps
Scenes from pagan Russia in two parts
Musi
с: Igor Stravinsky (1911-1913)
Choreography after Vaslav Nijinsky (1913)

The Sleeping Beauty
Ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and apotheosis
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa (1890)

The Sleeping Beauty
Ballet-féerie in three acts with a prologue and an apotheosis
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa, revised version: Konstantin Sergeev (1952) with choreographic details: Fedor Lopukhov

Swan Lake
Fantasy ballet in three acts (four scenes)
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov (1895), revised choreography and stage direction: Konstantin Sergeyev (1950)

La Sylphide
Pantomime ballet in two acts
Music: Herman von Lovenskjøld
Choreography: August Bournonville (1836)

The Ballets of Mikhail Fokine

Chopiniana
Choreographic composition in one act
Music: Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated: Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1908)

The Dying Swan
Choreographic composition
Music: Camille Saint-Saëns (from the
Carnaval des animaux suite)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1907)

The Firebird
Russian fairytale in two scenes
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)

Petrouchka
Burlesque in four scenes
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Production: Leonid Leontiev for the Mariinsky Theatre in 1920 based on the choreographic composition: Michel Fokine

Polovtsian Dances
Ballet in one act
Music: Alexander Borodin (ballet scene from the opera
Prince Igor)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1909)

Schéhérazade
Choreographic drama in one act
Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Symphony suite
Schéhérazade)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)

Le Spectre de la Rose
Choreographic tableau
Music: Carl Maria von Weber (
Invitation to the Dance orchestrated: Hector Berlioz)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1911)

 

The Ballets of George Balanchine

Apollo
Ballet in two scenes
Music: Igor Stravinsky (
Apollon musagete)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1928)

Ballet Imperial
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Major)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1941-1973)

The Four Temperaments
Music: Paul Hindemith (
The Four Temperaments for string orchestra and piano, 1940, commissioned: George Balanchine)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1946-1951)

Jewels
Ballet in three parts
Music: Gabriel Fauré, Igor Stravinsky, Pyotr Tchaikovsky
Choreography: George Balanchine (1967)

Prodigal Son
Ballet in three scenes
Music: Sergei Prokofiev (Op. 46, 1928-29)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1929)

Serenade
Classical ballet in four movements
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (
Serenade in C Major for String Orchestra, Op. 48)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1935)

Symphony in C
Ballet in four movements
Music: Georges Bizet (
Symphony No. 1 in C)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1947)

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (
Swan Lake, Op. 20)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1960)

Theme and Variations
A classical ballet
Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky (final movement of
Suite No.3 for orchestra in G major, 1884)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1947)

La Valse
Music: Maurice Ravel (
Valses nobles et sentimentales, 1911, orchestrated 1912; La Valse, 1920, commissioned: Serge Diaghilev)
Choreography: George Balanchine (1951-1974)

The Ballets to the music of Dmitry Shostakovich

Leningrad Symphony
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich (
Symphony No. 7, First Movement)
Choreography: Igor Belsky (1961)

The Young Lady and the Hooligan
Music: Dmitry Shostakovich
Choreography: Konstantin Boyarsky (1962)