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Marius Petipa(1818-1910)

  • Choreography
  • Writer
  • Director
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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 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018), The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - La belle au bois dormant, Ballet en deux actes (2011) and The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010). He was married to Love Savitskaya and Mariia Surovshchikova. He died on 14 July 1910 in Gurzuf, Crimea, Russian Empire [now Ukraine].
BornMarch 11, 1818
DiedJuly 14, 1910(92)
BornMarch 11, 1818
DiedJuly 14, 1910(92)
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Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant, Eugenio Derbez, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Misty Copeland, and Jayden Fowora-Knight in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
5.6
  • Writer
  • 2018
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
  • Choreography
  • 2011
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010)
The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker
7.7
  • Writer
  • 2010
Don Quixote (1973)
Don Quixote
7.7
  • Writer
  • 1973

Credits

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Choreography

  • Don Quixote (2015)
    Don Quixote
    Video
    • choreographer: original
    • 2015
  • Schwanensee (2014)
    Schwanensee
    8.3
    TV Movie
    • choreographer: original
    • 2014
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Raymonda (2012)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Raymonda
    • choreographer: original
    • 2012
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Corsair (2012)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Corsair
    • choreographer: original
    • 2012
  • 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
    • choreographer: original
    • 2011
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Esmeralda (2011)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Esmeralda
    9.0
    • choreographer: original
    • 2011
  • First Position (2011)
    First Position
    7.6
    • choreographer
    • 2011
  • Zhisel v 3D (2011)
    Zhisel v 3D
    6.6
    • choreographer: adaptation
    • 2011
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Don Quixote (2011)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Don Quixote
    8.3
    • choreographer
    • 2011
  • Don Quichot (2010)
    Don Quichot
    8.1
    TV Movie
    • choreographer
    • 2010
  • The Nutcracker (2009)
    The Nutcracker
    6.7
    • choreographer: original
    • 2009
  • Swan Lake (2009)
    Swan Lake
    8.4
    Video
    • choreographer: original production
    • 2009
  • Don Quixote (2009)
    Don Quixote
    9.0
    Video
    • choreographer: original production
    • 2009
  • Center Stage: Turn It Up (2008)
    Center Stage: Turn It Up
    6.0
    • original choreography: Black Swan Pas de Deux
    • 2008
  • Swan Lake (2007)
    Swan Lake
    8.3
    Video
    • choreographer: original version
    • 2007

Writer

  • Balet Shchelkunchik (2024)
    Balet Shchelkunchik
    • script
    • 2024
  • Spyashchaya krasavitsa (2024)
    Spyashchaya krasavitsa
    • libretto
    • 2024
  • Shchelkunchik (2023)
    Shchelkunchik
    • libretto
    • 2023
  • The Nutcracker - ROH, London 2022 (Ballet) (2022)
    The Nutcracker - ROH, London 2022 (Ballet)
    • original scenario
    • 2022
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - La Bayadère (2019)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - La Bayadère
    • libretto
    • 2019
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Don Quixote (2018)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live From Moscow - Don Quixote
    • libretto
    • 2018
  • Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, Richard E. Grant, Eugenio Derbez, Keira Knightley, Mackenzie Foy, Misty Copeland, and Jayden Fowora-Knight in The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)
    The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
    5.6
    • suggested by "The Nutcracker Ballet" by
    • 2018
  • 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
    7.5
    • choreography
    • 2013
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rudolf Nureyev, Manuel Legris, Paul Connelly, Vladimir Shishov, and Liudmila Konovalova in Der Nussknacker (2013)
    Der Nussknacker
    TV Special
    • libretto
    • 2013
  • Joshua Bell, Hugh Downs, Renée Fleming, Alan Gilbert, Lorin Maazel, Natalia Makarova, Audra McDonald, Zubin Mehta, Itzhak Perlman, Louis Perry, Beverly Sills, Martin Bookspan, and Fred Child in Live from Lincoln Center (1976)
    Live from Lincoln Center
    8.5
    TV Series
    • libretto: ballet
    • 2011
  • 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
    • libretto
    • 2011
  • The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker (2010)
    The Bolshoi Ballet: Live from Moscow - The Nutcracker
    7.7
    • with ideas borrowed from
    • 2010
  • The Nutcracker (2008)
    The Nutcracker
    7.0
    Video
    • libretto and script plan
    • 2008
  • La Bayadère
    TV Special
    • libretto
    • 1999
  • The Nutcracker (1994)
    The Nutcracker
    8.8
    Video
    • libretto
    • 1994

Director

  • Don Quixote (2015)
    Don Quixote
    Video
    • Director
    • 2015

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)
  • Spouses
      Love Savitskaya1882 - July 14, 1910 (his death, 6 children)
  • 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.
  • Publicity listings
    • 2 Print Biographies
    • 2 Portrayals

Did you know

  • Trivia
    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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