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The Blue Dahlia Le Dahlia bleu ) is a fantastic ballet in two acts, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni , first presented by the Imperial Ballet on May 12 [O.S. April 30] 1860 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia , with Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as the Blue Dahlia) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Beausoleil).
Marius Petipa renewed the first act of this ballet in 1875 for a debut of his daughter, Marie Petipa .
Revivals The ballet was revived by Pavel Gerdt for the Imperial Ballet and presented at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre , St. Petersburg on March 5–18, 1905 with Lubov Egorova (as the Blue Dahlia). Petipa disliked Gerdt's 1905 revival to such a degree that he requested his name be removed from the program.
1847–59
Paquita Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid Giselle The Star of Granada The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly Le Corsaire A Marriage During the Regency The Parisian Market 1860–79
The Blue Dahlia Terpsichore The Pharaoh's Daughter The Beauty of Lebanon The Traveling Dancer Florida Titania Faust The Benevolent Cupid The Slave Le Roi Candaule Don Quixote Trilby Catarina The Two Stars Camargo Le Papillon Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") The Bandits The Adventures of Peleus La Bayadère Roxana Ariadne The Daughter of the Snows Frizak the Barber Mlada 1880–99 1900–03
Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900)The Seasons Harlequinade The Heart of the Marquis (1902)The Magic Mirror The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)
