The Parisian Market or Le Marché des Innocents
The Parisian Market is a comic ballet in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni.
First presented by the Imperial Ballet under the title Le Marché des parisien on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal dancers: Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, Marius Petipa, and Timofei Stukolkin.
Revivals/Restagings
- Restaged by Marius Petipa for the Ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique, under the title Les Marché des Innocents. First presented on 29 May 1861. For this production Petipa changed the names of the characters Lizetta and Marquis Megrèle to Gloriette and Lindor. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa, and Louis Mérante.
- Revival by Lev Ivanov for the Imperial Ballet. First presented for the Imperial court at the theatre of Krasnoe Selo, St. Petersburg, on July 6–18, 1892.
- Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet. First presented at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, on January 8–20, 1895. Principal Dancers - Maria Anderson, Sergei Litavkin, Enrico Cecchetti