"Sleeping Beauty" reconstruction 10/17 The Mariinsky Ballet; Obraztsova/Korsakov

that we are now 100 years from Act I, to the time of Louis XIV with, as one 1890 reviewer put it, " ... affected marchionesses & curled gentleman". Contemporary sources contradict oneanother as to which dances of the noblewomen were performed in 1890 (Petipa instructed Tchaikovsky to write 4: the dances of the Duchesses, Baronesses, Countesses & Marchionesses). The notation only preserves one from the Imperial Ballet's production, being the 'Danse des duchesses'. The notation includes ...
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