Opera divertissements

Bolero in Daniel Auber’s La Muette de Portici, 3rd December 1857, Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Fromental Halévy’s La Juive, 1859

Dances for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Mazeppa, 1884

Dances for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, 1884

Dances for Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata, 1884

Dances for Carl Maria von Weber’s Der Freischütz, 1885

Dances for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Enchantress, 1887

Dances for Gioachino Rossini’s Guillaume Tell, 1888

Dances for Anton Rubinstein’s The Merchant Kalashnikov, 1889

Dance of the Serf Peasants in Anton Rubinstein’s Goryusha, 1889

Dances for Alexander Serov’s Judith, 1889

Dances for Giacomo Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine, 1890

Dances for Alexander Borodin’s Prince Igor, 23rd October 1890, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Mlada (with Enrico Cecchetti), 20th October 1892, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Russian Dance in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin, 27th October 1892, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances in Georges Bizet’s Djamieh, 23rd November 1893, Imperial Mariinsky Theatres, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, 28th September 1894, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Russian Dance in Eduard Nápravník’s Dubrovsky, 3rd January 1895, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s Christmas Eve, 28th November 1895, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Camille Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah, 19th November 1896, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Otto Nicolai’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, 3rd February 1897, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Jules Massenet’s Esclarmonde, for a special performance by Sybil Sanderson, 21st February 1897, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances for Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Oprichnik, 2nd September 1897

Dances for Anton Rubinstein’s The Demon, 1897, Warsaw

Dances for Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, 1899

Dances for Georges Bizet’s Carmen, 1901

Other Dances

Neapolitan Dance, 10th August [O.S. 29th July] 1858, Kamenny Ostrov Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Pas de deux to music by Schumann, 21st July [O.S. 9th July] 1886, Krasnoe Selo

Grand ballabile classique, 17th July [O.S. 5th July] 1889, Krasnoe Selo

Czardas for five couples to music by Riccardo Drigo, 9th August [O.S.28 July] 1889, Krasnoe Selo

Grand Pas des voiles to music by Cesare Pugni, 18th August [O.S. 6th August] 1889, Krasnoe Selo

Polonaise, pas hongroise and La danse des heures, 16th July [O.S. 4th July] 1900, Krasnoe Selo

Pas de voiles, ‘Nymphes et Satyre, scène dansante, 29th July [O.S. 17th July] 1900, Krasnoe Selo

Czardas to Franz Liszt’s Second Hungarian Rhapsody, added to Arthur Saint-Léon’s The Little Humpbacked Horse, 22nd October [11th October] 1900, Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg

Dances in Other Theatre Works

Dances for a masquerade with Marie Petipa, February 1891

Interpolated ballet and other dances in Alexander Shakhovskoy’s Batyushkin’s Daughter, for the benefit of the actress Maria Savina, 27th January 1894

Dances in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 27th October 1889, Imperial Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

Sources

• Roland John Wiley (1997) The Life and Ballets of Lev Ivanov. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press