Le Diable amoureux (ballet)
Le Diable Amoureux (aka Satanella, or Love and Hell) is a Pantomime ballet in 3 acts, 7 scenes. Originally staged by Joseph Mazilier to the music of Napoléon Henri Reber and François Benoist. Libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, based on the 1772 occult romance by Jacques Cazotte.
First presented by the Ballet du Théâtre de l'Académie Royale de Musique in Paris, France on 21 September 1840. Pauline Leroux (as Uriel), Mazilier (as Alvaro).
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- Revival by Marius Petipa and Jean Petipa for the Imperial Ballet under the title Satanella, with music orchestrated and revised by Konstantin Liadov. First presented on 22 February [O.S. 10 February] 1848 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa as Satanella, and Marius Petipa as Count Fabio.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet with additional music by Cesare Pugni. First presented on 30 October [O.S. 18 October] 1866 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Praskovia Lebedeva as Satanella, and Lev Ivanov.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet with additional music by Cesare Pugni. First presented on 7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1868 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Alexandra Vergina as Satanella, and Lev Ivanov as Count Fabio.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet. First presented on 18 February [O.S. 6 February] 1897 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. Principal Dancers - Lyubov Roslavleva.
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In 1859, Marius Petipa created a new concert pas de deux for the benefit performance of the Italian ballerina Amalia Ferraris. Petipa choreographed the pas de deux to new music which the composer Cesare Pugni based on the ancient air Il Carnevale di Venezia (also used by Nicolò Paganini for his famous repertory piece Carnevale di Venezia (Op.10)). The pas de deux was titled as Le Carnaval de Venise.
When Petipa revived the full-length ballet Satanella for the ballerina Alexandra Vergina in 1868, Le Carnaval de Venise was introduced into the third act of the ballet, where it was retained for many years.
Le Carnaval de Venise lived on long after the full-length Satanella left the Imperial Ballet's repertory. Today the pas de deux is a staple of the classical ballet repertory and the ballet competition circuit. The celebrated documentary hosted by Princess Grace of Monaco The Children of Theatre Street (which profiled students attending the Vaganova Choreographic Institute) featured the pas de deux prominently.
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- Le Carnaval de Venise performed by Eugenia Obraztsova and Vladimir Shklyarov of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, pt. 1
- Le Carnaval de Venise performed by Eugenia Obraztsova and Vladimir Shklyarov of the Kirov/Mariinsky Ballet, pt. 2
[edit] Sources
- Cohen, Selma Jeanne. In Search of Satanella: An Adventure Prompted by "The Children of Theatre Street". Published in Dance Research Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1/2 (1978–1979), pp. 25–30.
- Garafola, Lynn / Petipa, Marius. The Diaries of Marius Petipa. Trans, Ed., and introduction by Lynn Garafola. Published in Studies in Dance History. 3.1 (Spring 1992).
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