Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master by Nadine Meisner
English | June 3rd, 2019 | ISBN: 0190659297 | 512 pages | EPUB | 9.93 MB
English | June 3rd, 2019 | ISBN: 0190659297 | 512 pages | EPUB | 9.93 MB
One of the most important ballet choreographers of all time, Marius Petipa (1818 - 1910) created works that are now mainstays of the ballet repertoire. Every day, in cities around the world, performances of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty draw large audiences to theatres and inspire new generations of dancers, as does The Nutcracker during the winter holidays. These are his best-known works, but others - Don Quixote, La Bayadère - have also become popular, even canonical components of the classical repertoire, and together they have shaped the defining style of twentieth-century ballet. The first biography in English of this monumental figure of ballet history, Marius Petipa: The Emperor's Ballet Master covers the choreographer's life and work in full within the context of remarkable historical and political surroundings.