''Trilby'' is a
ballet
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in 2 acts and 3 scenes, was the final ballet that
Marius Petipa choreographed and staged for the Imperial Bolshoi Ballet during the two years that he was commissioned to create new works for the Moscow stage. And the music was by
Yuli Gerber. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the 1822 novella ''
Trilby, ou Le Lutin d'Argail'' by
Charles Nodier
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, first presented by the
Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre
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on January 25/February 6 (
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dates),
1870
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, in
Moscow
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with
Polina Karpakova as Trilby and
Ludiia Geiten as Miranda and restaged by Petipa for the Imperial Ballet at the
Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre
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on January 17–29, 1871 in St. Petersburg with
Adèle Grantzow
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as Trilby and
Lev Ivanov
Lev Ivanovich Ivanov (russian: link=no, Лев Ива́нович Ива́нов; 2 March 1834, Moscow – 24 December 1901, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet. ...
as Count Leopold.
Petipa made a more direct adaptation of Nodier’s novella.
The famous variation for the male dancer in the
''Le Corsaire'' pas de deux is from Gerber's score for ''Trilby''; a painting of dancers from the ballet in costume (as fledglings emerging from the shell) by
Viktor Hartmann
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was one of the paintings which inspired ''Pictures at an Exhibition'' by Mussorgsky.
References
{{Ballet premieres
Ballets by Marius Petipa
1870 ballet premieres
Ballets by Yuli Gerber
Ballets premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre
Adaptations of works by Charles Nodier