Marius Petipa(1818-1910)

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Marius Petipa was born on 11 March 1818 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a writer and director, known for Casse-Noisette et les Quatre Royaumes (2018), The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010) and The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - La belle au bois dormant, Ballet en deux actes (2011). He was married to Love Savitskaya and Mariia Surovshchikova. He died on 14 July 1910 in Gurzuf, Crimea, Russian Empire [now Ukraine].

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Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant, Eugenio Derbez, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Misty Copeland, and Jayden Fowora-Knight in Casse-Noisette et les Quatre Royaumes (2018)

Casse-Noisette et les Quatre Royaumes

5.6

Writer

2018

The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010)

The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - The Nutcracker

7.5

Writer

2010

Svetlana Zakharova and David Hallberg in The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - La belle au bois dormant, Ballet en deux actes (2011)

The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - La belle au bois dormant, Ballet en deux actes

8.6

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2011

Swan Lake 3D produced by Glass Slipper, in Cameron Pace Group 3D in association with Mariinsky Theatre starring Ekaterina Kondaurova.

Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre

7.6

Writer

2013

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Don Quixote
Video
- choreographer: original
- 2015
Schwanensee
8.3
TV Movie
- choreographer: original
- 2014
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Raymonda
- choreographer: original
- 2012
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Corsair
- choreographer: original
- 2012
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - La belle au bois dormant, Ballet en deux actes
8.6
- choreographer: original
- 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Esmeralda
9.0
- choreographer: original
- 2011
Le concours de danse
7.5
- choreographer
- 2011
Zhisel v 3D
6.6
- choreographer: adaptation
- 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Don Quixote
8.1
- choreographer
- 2011
Don Quichot
8.3
TV Movie
- choreographer
- 2010
The Nutcracker
6.7
- choreographer: original
- 2009
Swan Lake
8.3
Video
- choreographer: original production
- 2009
Don Quixote
9.0
Video
- choreographer: original production
- 2009
Danse ta vie 2
6.0
- original choreography: Black Swan Pas de Deux
- 2008
Swan Lake
8.4
Video
- choreographer: original version
- 2007

Writer

Balet Shchelkunchik
- script
- 2024
Spyashchaya krasavitsa
- libretto
- 2024
Shchelkunchik
- libretto
- 2023
The Nutcracker - ROH, London 2022 (Ballet)
- original scenario
- 2022
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - La Bayadère
- libretto
- 2019
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Don Quixote
- libretto
- 2018
Casse-Noisette et les Quatre Royaumes
5.6
- suggested by "The Nutcracker Ballet" by
- 2018
Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre
7.6
- choreography
- 2013
Der Nussknacker
TV Special
- libretto
- 2013
Live from Lincoln Center
8.5
TV Series
- libretto: ballet
- 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - La belle au bois dormant, Ballet en deux actes
8.6
- libretto
- 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - The Nutcracker
7.5
- with ideas borrowed from
- 2010
The Nutcracker
7.4
Video
- libretto and script plan
- 2008
La Bayadère
TV Special
- libretto
- 1999
The Nutcracker
8.9
Video
- libretto
- 1994

Director

Personal details

Alternative name
- Marius I. Petipa
Born
- March 11, 1818
- Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Died
- July 14, 1910
- Gurzuf, Crimea, Russian Empire [now Ukraine](undisclosed)
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Other works
(Thursday October 29,1942) His ballet, "Le Lac Des Cygnes," was performed in a Sadler's Wells ballet production at the New Theatre in London, England with Beryl Grey, David Paltenghi, John Field, David Davenport, Jean Bedells, Peggy Van Praagh, Moira Shearer, and Moyra Fraser in the cast. Constant Lambert was orchestra conductor.
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- 2 Print Biographies
- 2 Portrayals

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Considered the greatest ballet choreographer of the 19th century, and one of the greatest of all time. He choreographed the original productions of many ballets written by some of the world's greatest composers.

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