![]() ![]() ![]() Meisner, Nadine (2019) Marius Petipa, The Emperor’s Ballet Master. New York City, US: Oxford University Press.Sergei Legat and Marie Petipa in the dance “La Fricassée” (1900) Les Ruses d’amour was notated in the Stepanov notation method and is part of the Sergeyev Collection. Les Ruses d’amour premièred on the 30th January 1900 at the Hermitage Theatre, with the whole Imperial Court attending the performance. The first ballet in this new trilogy was Les Ruses d’amour, or The Trial of Damis, which was inspired by the French rococo and composed by Glazunov. ![]() Petipa began crafting scenarios for these ballets, drawing on a variety of differing subjects that were to be composed by Alexander Glazunov and Riccardo Drigo. When Ivan Vsevolozhsky took up the directorship of the Imperial Theatre of the Hermitage in 1899, he commissioned Petipa to create three short ballets to be given for performance at the Hermitage Theatre that were to be attended by the Imperial Russian Court for the 1900-1901 season. ![]() Olga Preobrazhenskaya as Countess Isabella and Pavel Gerdt as Damis (1900) Damis honourably passes the test that Isabella has devised and receives her hand as his reward. Isabella, Damis’s fiancée, puts the young man to the test by swapping clothes with her servant. Imperial Theatre of the Hermitage, Saint Petersburgĭamis comes to the home of Countess Lucinda, to whose daughter he is engaged, though he has never met her. ![]()
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