Ballets By Cesare Pugni
Cesare Pugni (; ; 31 May 1802, in Genoa – ) was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. He studied composition with Bonifazio Asioli and violin with Alessandro Rolla. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed for Her Majesty's Theatre in London (1843–1850), and for the Imperial Theatres in St. Petersburg, Russia (1850–1870). The majority of his ballet music was composed for the works of the ballet master Jules Perrot, who mounted nearly every one of his ballets to scores by Pugni. In 1850 Perrot departed London for Russia, having accepted the position of ''Premier maître de ballet'' of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres at the behest of Carlotta Grisi, who was engaged as ''Prima ballerina''. Cesare Pugni followed Perrot and Grisi to Russia, and remained in the imperial capital even after Grisi's departure in 1853 and Perrot's departure in 18 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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The Pharaoh's Daughter
''The Pharaoh's Daughter'' (; ), is a ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Cesare Pugni. The libretto was a collaboration between Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Petipa from Théophile Gautier's ''Le Roman de la momie''. It was first presented by the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, in St. Petersburg, Russia, on 18 January (30 January) 1862, with the design by A. Roller, G. Wagner (scenery), Kelwer and Stolyakov (costumes). The principal dancers at the opening night were Carolina Rosati (Mummy/Aspicia), Nicholas Goltz (Pharaoh), Marius Petipa (Ta-Hor), Timofey Stoukolkin as John Bull, Lubov Radina (Ramzaya), Felix Kschessinskiy (King of Nubia), and Lev Ivanov (Fisherman). For Petipa it was the last role: he has finished his career as a dancer; he became ballet master. The Sergeyev Collection, which is part of the Harvard University Theatre Collection, contains choreographic notations of the Imperial Ballet's production of ''T ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Giovanni Galzerani
Giovanni Galzerani (c. 1789 - after 1853) was an Italian choreographer, ballet dancer, and composer who was active in major theatres throughout Italy from 1808 to 1853. He was born in Porto Azzurro on the Isle of Elba and began his education in Gaeta where his father was the military commandant at the time. At his father's wish he enrolled in the Collegio della Nunziatella in Naples to train for a military career, remaining there until the age of 17. While at the college, he also studied ballroom dancing with Ferdinando Gioia, the brother of the celebrated dancer and choreographer Gaetano Gioia, and became one of his best pupils. After his father's death in 1806, Galzerani abandoned preparations for a military career and dedicated himself entirely to the ballet, first as a dancer and then as a choreographer.Staccioli, Roberto (1998)"Galzerani, Giovanni" ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Volume 51. Retrieved online 18 December 2013 . He also composed the music for some o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Salvatore Taglioni
Salvatore Taglioni (17905 October 1868) was an Italian dancer and choreographer who danced and produced ballets in the 19th century. Early life Salvatore Taglioni was born in Palermo, Sicily, Italy in 1790.Regli, F. (1860). Dizionario biografico dei più celebri poeti ed artisti melodrammatici, tragici e comici, maestri, concertisti, coreografi, mimi, ballerini, scenografi, giornalisti, impresarii, ecc. ecc. che fiorirono in Italia dal 1800 al 1860 compilato dal cav. dottor Francesco Regli. Italy: coi tipi di Enrico Dalmazzo. He was the younger brother of Filippo Taglioni and an uncle of ballet dancer Marie Taglioni. He married Adélaïde Péraud, who was also a dancer. He welcomed his son, Ferdinando Taglioni, in Naples on 14 September 1810. His daughter, Louisa Taglioni, was born in 1823 from his marriage to Adélaïde. Entertainment life He studied in Paris with Jean-François Coulon, making his debut at the Opéra de Paris. Starting around 1806, he performed in Lyon an ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Louis Henry (choreographer)
Louis Henry (5 March 17844 November 1836) was a French people, French dancer and choreographer. Early life Louis Xavier Stansislas Henri Bonnachon was born in Versailles, Yvelines, France on 5 March 1784.Vaccarino, E. (1998). Henry, Louis. In The International Encyclopedia of Dance. : Oxford University Press. Retrieved 3 Nov. 2024, from https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780195173697.001.0001/acref-9780195173697-e-0774. Entertainment life Louis Henry studied at the Paris Opera School with André-Jean-Jacques Deshayes, Deshayes, Pierre Gardel, Gardel, and Jean-François Coulon, Coulon. He started his career at the Opéra de Paris in 1803, later moving to the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin as its ballet master. After leaving France, Italy was where Henry spent most of his professional life during the Romantic period. He performed mainly in Italian theaters, such as Teatro San Carlo and Teatro del Fondo in Naples, and La Scala in Milan. In 1812, alongside Italian ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gaetano Gioja
Gaetano (anglicized ''Cajetan'') is an Italian masculine given name. It is also used as a surname. It is derived from the Latin ''Caietanus'', meaning "from ''Caieta''" (the modern Gaeta). The given name has been in use in Italy since medieval period, although it also remained in use as a byname indicating people from Gaeta, as in Thomas Cajetan or ''Gaetanus'' (1469–1534). The modern given name can be traced to Saint Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene (1480–1547) who was canonized in 1671. Other variants of the name exist in other Romance languages, the French form of the name is Gaétan'', Gaétan'', the Portuguese form is '' Caetano'', and the Spanish form is '' Cayetano''. The feminine form is ''Gaetana'' (also ''Caetana'' and ''Cayetana''). People with the given name Academics * Gaetano Borriello (1958–2015), Italian-American computer scientist * Gaetano Cozzi (1922–2001), Italian historian * Gaetano Arturo Crocco (1877-1968), Italian space scientist, aeronautics p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Stop Motion
Stop-motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking and special effects technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back. Any kind of object can thus be animated, but puppets with movable joints (puppet animation) or clay figures (claymation) are most commonly used. Puppets, models or clay figures built around an armature are used in model animation. Stop motion with live actors is often referred to as pixilation. Stop motion of flat materials such as paper, fabrics or photographs is usually called cutout animation. Terminology The term "stop-motion", relating to the animation technique, is often spelled without a hyphen as "stop motion"—either standalone or as a compound modifier. Both orthographic variants, with and without the hyphen, are correct, but the hyphenated one is th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Alexander Shiryaev
Alexander Viktorovich Shiryaev (; — 25 April 1941) was a Russian ballet dancer, ballet master and choreographer, founder of character dance in Russian ballet who served at the Mariinsky Theatre. Shiryaev was also a pioneering animation director who is credited with the invention of stop motion animation. Early life Alexander Viktorovich Shiryaev was born to a long line of artists involved in the ballet. He was the son of the flautist Hector (Viktor) Cesarevich Puni, who played for the St. Petersburg Imperial Bolshoi Theatre's orchestra; and dancer Ekaterina Ksenophontovna Shiryaeva, a member of the corps de ballet. Alexander Shiryaev was the grandson of the Italian composer of ballet music Cesare Pugni and his English wife Marion Linton, who came to Russia with the renowned ballerina Fanny Elssler and the balletmaster Jules Perrot in 1851. Alexander Shiryaev. St. Petersburg Ballet. From Reminiscences of the Mariinsky Theatre Artist' memoirs from the ''Notes by Film Histori ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ivan Puni
Ivan Albertovich Puni (; also known as Jean Pougny; – 28 December 1956) was a Russian avant-garde (Suprematist, Cubo-Futurist) and French artist, who intensively changed his style until it went into lyric Primitivism in the direction of Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard. Biography Early life Ivan Puni was born in Kuokkala (then Grand Duchy of Finland in the Russian Empire, now Repino, a part of St. Petersburg in Russia). It was long believed that Ivan Puni was born in 1892 or 1894 until his birth certificate was found in 2019 in a St. Petersburg archive, showing his birth date as 22 March 1890 (old style).А. Родионов. Расшифровывая Пуни. Часть 1. Ранние годы // Вестник истории, литературы, искусства, т. XV, 2022, с. 144-162. He was the grandson of an eminent Italian composer of ballet music, Cesare Pugni. His father, a cellist, proposed him a military career, but Ivan instead decided to become a pa ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Le Corsaire
''Le Corsaire'' is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem '' The Corsair'' by Lord Byron. Originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Adolphe Adam and other composers, it was first presented by the ballet of the Théâtre Impérial de l’Opéra in Paris on 23 January 1856. All modern productions of ''Le Corsaire'' are derived from the revivals staged by the Ballet Master Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg throughout the mid to late 19th century. The ballet has many celebrated passages which are often excerpted from the full-length work and performed independently: the scene ''Le Jardin animé'', the ''Pas d’esclave'', the ''Pas de trois des odalisques'', and the so-called ''Le Corsaire pas de deux'' (music mostly by Riccardo Drigo), which is among classical ballet's most famous and performed excerpts. Synopsis Act 1 Scene 1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Diane And Actéon Pas De Deux
''Le Roi Candaule'' ( en. ''King Candaules'') is a ''Grand ballet'' in four acts and six scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. The libretto is by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and is based on the history of King Candaules the Ruler of Lydia, as described by Herodotus in his ''Histories''. History ''Le Roi Candaule'' was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia. The ballet was a huge success, with Mlle. Henriette d'Or amazing the audience in her performance as Queen Nisia. Her incredible technical abilities were especially showcased in the celebrated ''Pas de Venus'' of the second act, in which she performed five pirouettes sur la pointe, which caused a great sensation among the audience. Two months later, Petipa moved his ballet to Moscow, where it was premièred on December 22, 1868, at the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre and it continued to be performed in Moscow and St. Peter ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Satanella Pas De Deux
''Le Diable amoureux'' (also known as ''Satanella'' or ''Love and Hell'') is a ''ballet-pantomime'' in three acts and eight scenes, originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Napoléon Henri Reber and François Benoist. The libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges is based on Jacques Cazotte's 1772 occult romance ''The Devil in Love (novel), The Devil in Love''. The work was first presented by the Paris Opera Ballet, Ballet of the Royal Academy of Music (Paris Opera Ballet) in Paris on 23 September 1840, with Pauline Leroux (as Uriel), Mazilier (as Alvaro, for ballet his name is Frederic), and Louise Fitz-James (as Lilia). Revivals *Revival by Marius Petipa and Jean-Antoine Petipa for Russia's Mariinsky Ballet#History, Imperial Ballet under the title ''Satanella'', with music orchestrated and revised by Konstantin Liadov. First presented on at the Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg. Principal dancers: Yel ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |