The Bandits (ballet)
Ekaterina Vazem in the Petipa/Minkus Les Brigands, St. Petersburg, 1875The Bandits (French: Les Brigands) is a grand ballet in two acts and five scenes with prologue, choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Léon Minkus. The libretto by Marius Petipa is based on Miguel Cervantes' novella La Gitanilla.
The work was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on January 26/February 7 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1875 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Principal dancers: Ekaterina Vazem.
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| 1847–59 |
- Paquita (*1847, *1881)
- Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (*1848)
- Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid (1849)
- Giselle (*1850, *1884, *1899, *1903)
- The Star of Granada (1855)
- The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857)
- Le Corsaire (*1858, *1863, *1868, *1885, *1899)
- A Marriage During the Regency (1858)
- The Parisian Market (1859, *1861)
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| 1860–79 |
- The Blue Dahlia (1860, *1875)
- Terpsichore (1861)
- The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898)
- The Beauty of Lebanon (1863)
- The Traveling Dancer (1864)
- Florida (1866)
- Titania (1866)
- Faust (*1867)
- The Benevolent Cupid (1868)
- The Slave (1868)
- Le Roi Candaule (1868, *1891, *1903)
- Don Quixote (1869, *1871)
- Trilby (1870)
- Catarina (*1870)
- The Two Stars (1871)
- La Péri (*1872)
- Camargo (1872)
- Le Papillon (*1874)
- Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (*1874, *1892)
- The Bandits (1875)
- The Adventures of Peleus (1876, *1897)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (1876)
- La Bayadère (1877, *1900)
- Roxana (1878)
- Ariadne (1878)
- The Daughter of the Snows (1879)
- Frizak the Barber (1879)
- Mlada (1879, *1896)
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| 1900–03 |
- Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900)
- The Seasons (1900)
- Harlequinade (1900)
- The Heart of the Marquis (1902)
- The Magic Mirror (1903)
- The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)
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