Music by Igor Stravinsky Choreography by Michel Fokine (1911)
Libretto, sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois Musical Director: Valery Gergiev Staging by Gary Chryst Revival Designer: Batozhan Dashitsyrenov Lighting design: Vladimir Lukasevich Coach: Igor Petrov
World premiere: 13 June 1911, Les Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris Premiere of this production: 6 February 2010, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time: 40 minutes
Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Pétrouchka was first staged by Michel Fokine during the saisons russes in Paris in 1911. Fokine’s ballet was brought to the Mariinsky Theatre’s repertoire by Leonid Leontiev in 1920. Specially for the VI Festival Maslenitsa (Shrovetide), the American dancer and choreographer Gary Chryst has worked to bring back the ballet to the Mariinsky Theatre. Chryst worked on stage rehearsals of Pétrouchka for the acclaimed Joffrey Ballet in New York in 1970 under Diaghilev’s friend Léonide Massine, a soloist with the Ballets russes and an renowned choreographer. In 2006, Chryst staged Pétrouchka for American Ballet Theatre and later for the National Ballet of Canada.
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