Artistic director and Chief conductor - Alexander Petukhov
Libretto by
Jules Perrot after Victor Hugo
La Esmeralda is a ballet, inspired by Notre Dame de Paris by Victor
Hugo, originally choreographed by Jules Perrot; with music by Cesare Pugni and
design by William Grieve (scenery), D. Sloman (machinery), Mme. Copere
(costumes).
It was first presented by the Ballet of her Majesty's Theatre, London on
March 9, 1844 with the Ballerina Carlotta Grisi as Esmeralda, Jules Perrot as
Gringoire, Arthur Saint-Leon as Phoebus, Adelaide Frassi as Fleur de Lys, and
Antoine Louis Coulon as Quasimodo.
Today the ballet is presented in its full-length form only in certain parts
of the world; Russia; parts of Eastern Europe; and New Jersey, United States.
New Jersey Ballet introduced the full-length version for the first time in the
United States in 2004. Outside of Russia, Eastern Europe and New Jersey only
excerpts are given - the La Esmeralda Pas de Deux and the Pas de Six, but mostly
the Diane and Actйon Pas de Deux is given, which in all actuality is not
originally from the ballet (it is often miscredited as having been added by
Petipa to his 1886 revival of La Esmeralda).
A second American production of the full ballet was produced in 2011 at The
Dance Studio, a small school for dedicated dance students, in Orange,
Massachusetts. The production starred two eighteen year old seniors at the
school, Bethany Armentrout as Quasimodo and Katie Kenney as Esmeralda using
professional choreography from the Bolshoi's most recent production.
VII International Ballet Festival in the Kremlin.
"Esmeralda".
Kremlin ballet.
Claude Frollo - Maxim Afanasyev.
Libretto by Andrei Petrov (based on the script by Jules Perrot and Victor Hugo's novel “Notre-Dame de Paris”).
Choreographer: People's Artist of the Russian Federation, Moscow Prize winner Andrei Petrov.
Fragments of choreography by Marius Petipa and Agrippina Vaganova are used in the performance.
Artist - set designer - Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation Grigory Belov.
Costume Designer - Olga Polyanskaya.
Assistant to the choreographer - Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Valery Ryzhov.
Music edition, orchestration and new music - the winner of the International Competition Vladimir Kachesov.
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