SWAN LAKE HISTORY
original choreography
(1877): Mauius Petipa
music: Peter I Tchaikovsky
first performed: St Petersburg, Russia
March
4, 1877
First produced Bolshoi Theater,
Moscow
Original Russian Title:
Lebedinoe ozero
Ballet In 4 Acts
Music: Peter Tchaikovsky
Libretto: VP Begitchev
& V Geltser
Choreography: V Reisinger
Principals: Palageia
Karpakova & S Gilbert
* This production was not a sucesss
March 1, 1894
2nd Act produced at St Petersburg
Maryinsky Theater
Tchaikovsky Memorial
Matinee
Choreography: L Ivanov
Prinicpals: Legnani
& Gerdt
January 27, 1895
Full 4 Act Swan Lake produced at
Maryinsky Theater
Choreography: Marius
Petipa (1st & 3rd Acts)
Lev
Ivanov (2nd & 4th Acts)
Odette-Odile: Legnani
Sigfried: Gerdt
* Major changes were made in the musical sequence of
the 2nd & 4th Acts.
Other Russian Productions / Restaging
1901: Restaged wth revisions by Gorsky at Bolshoi
1937: Restaged with amendments by Messerer at Bolshoi
1933: Vaganova Version, Kirov Theater
1945: Lopokova Version, Kirov Theater
1950: K Sergeyev Version, Kirov Theater
1953; Bourmiester, Stanislavsky & Nemirovich-Danchenko
1969: Grigorovich Version, Bolshoi Theater
First Production of complete
ballet outside Russia
1907: Prague National Theater,
choreography: Achille Viscusi
First London Performance (2nd
act only)
1910: At Hippodrome. Odette: Preobrajenska
First full length Petitpa-Ivanov
version outside Russia
1934: Vic-Wells Ballet
Staged by Sergeyev
* This became the version upon which most future Western versions
were based.
First performance by
Ballet Minnesota1996
1996: 8th Minnesota Dance Festival
2nd Act Only
The O'Shaughnessy,
St Paul, MN
restaged by: Cheryl
Rist & Elizabeth Shipiatsky
Odette: Marina Mosina
Sigfried: Dmtri Roudnev.
2nd performance by Ballet
Minnesota:
May 17-19, 2007
19th Minnesota Dance Festival
Complete Ballet (Acts
1-4)
The Fitzgerald Theater
St Paul, MN
restaged by: Cheryl
Rist
Odette: Oksana Konobeyeva
Sigfried: Davis Robertson
