The Pas de trois from Act 1 of Petipa's final revival of "Paquita", reconstructed by Alexei Ratmansky and Doug Fullington, performed by Evgenia Dolmatova, Mai Kono and Javier Amo (2015).
History
"Paquita" was originally created by the French Ballet Master Joseph Mazilier and French composer Edouard Deldevez. The ballet premiered on the 1st April 1846 at the Salle Le Peletier in Paris with the great Carlotta Grisi as Paquita and Lucien Petipa (Petipa's brother) as Lucien d'Hervilly.
A year later, the ballet was premiered in Russia in a staging by Marius Petipa and Pierre Frederic Malevergne for the Imperial Ballet of Saint Petersburg. Petipa had arrived in Saint Peterbsurg months before and was commissioned by the Director of the Imperial Theatres, Count Alexander Gedeonov to stage "Paquita" for his Imperial Ballet debut. The ballet premiered in Saint Petersburg on the 8th October [O.S. 26th September] 1847 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, with Yelena Andreyanovna as Paquita and Petipa as Lucien d'Hervilly.
In 1881/82, Petipa staged his own revival of "Paquita" with new musical additions by Ludwig Minkus, who was Ballet Composer of the Imperial Theatres at the time. For this revival, Petipa and Minkus added new numbers, which became the ballet's most famous passages - the Pas de trois of Act 1 and the Grand Pas Classique of Act 3. Petipa's revival of "Paquita" premiered on the 9th January [O.S. 27th December] 1881/82 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre with Ekaterina Vazem as Paquita and Pavel Gerdt as Lucien d'Hervilly.
For almost a century, the Pas de trois has often been mistakenly referred to the "Minkus Pas de trois", but the majority of the music is actually by Deldevez, not Minkus. Minkus actually arranged the Pas de trois from various pieces composed by Deldevez, Cesare Pugni and Adolphe Adam and only composed the coda.
(a) Entrée - the entrée from a Pas de deux in Act 2 of Mazilier's original production of "Paquita" composed by Deldevez
(b) Solo for two dancers - from Pugni's score for "The Naiad and the Fisherman"
(c) Variation I - from Deldevez's original Pas de deux in Act 2
(d) Variation II - from a pas de trois composed by Deldevez for Act 1 of "Paquita"
(e) Variation III - by Adolphe Adam from his score for Mazilier's 1845 ballet "Le Diable de Quatre"
(f) Coda - composed by Minkus for Petipa's revival
"Paquita" was notated in 1904 during rehearsals in which Petipa was coaching Anna Pavlova in the title role. The Pas de trois was notated when performed by Tamara Karsavina, Agrippina Vaganova and one of the Legat brothers, possibly Nikolai Legat. According to Nikolai Legat, the “Paquita Pas de trois” was one of Petipa’s favourites of his many compositions. In his memoirs, Legat writes that Petipa called it his “golden pas de trois”.
Enjoy! :)
22 май 2018
