swan lake the sleeping beauty and the nutcracker are three famous ballets by
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
title: History of ballet text: disinformation and fantasy. The East was often perceived as a faraway place where anything was possible, provided it was lavish, exotic and decadent. Petipa appealed to popular taste with "The Pharaoh's Daughter" (1862), and later "The Talisman" (1889), and "La Bayadère" (1877). Petipa is best remembered for his collaborations with Tchaikovsky. He used his music for his choreography of "The Nutcracker" (1892, though this is open to some debate among historians), "The Sleeping Beauty" (1890), and the definitive revival of "Swan Lake" (1895, with Lev Ivanov). These works were all drawn from European folklore. The female dancers' classical tutu as title: Swan Lake text: Reisinger of the requirements for each dance. However, unlike the instructions for the scores of "The Sleeping Beauty" and "The Nutcracker", no written instruction is known to have survived. From around the time of the turn of the 19th century until the beginning of the 1890s, scores for ballets were almost always written by composers known as "specialists," who were highly skilled at scoring the light, decorative, melodious, and rhythmically clear music that was at that time in vogue for ballet. Tchaikovsky studied the music of "specialists" such as the Italian Cesare Pugni and the Austrian Ludwig Minkus, before setting title: Russian classical music text: Russia's first Conservatories in St Petersburg and in Moscow: the former trained the great Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93), best known for ballets like "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", and "The Nutcracker". He remains Russia's best-known composer outside Russia. Easily the most famous successor in his style is Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), who studied at the Moscow Conservatory (where Tchaikovsky himself taught). Alexander Glazunov also took this romantic style. The late 19th and early 20th century saw the third wave of Russian classics: Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971), Alexander Scriabin (1872–1915), Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). They were experimental in style title: Simon Virsaladze text: 1973), Nutcracker (1966), Spartacus (1968), Swan Lake (1969), Ivan the Terrible (1975), Angara (1976), Romeo and Juliet (1979), The Golden Age (1982), and Raymonda (1984). He also designed Sergeyev's "Raymonda" (Kirov, 1948), "Swan Lake" (Kirov, 1950), and "The Sleeping Beauty" (Kirov, 1952) and Vainonen's "The Nutcracker" (Kirov, 1954). American reviewers, writing of touring Soviet productions, praised Mr. Virsaladze's designs for their grand scale, tastefulness, sensitivity to period and style and for often furthering the action of the ballet. Simon Virsaladze Simon (Soliko) Virsaladze () (Tbilisi, 24 January 1909 – Tbilisi, 9 February 1989) was a Georgian and one of the title: The Royal Ballet text: the repertory of the Imperial Russian Ballet. To stage these ballets with her newly formed company, de Valois employed Nicholas Sergeyev, a former régisseur of the Imperial. He staged productions of Petipa's "The Sleeping Beauty"; Petipa and Ivanov's "Swan Lake" and "The Nutcracker"; Petipa and Cecchetti's production of "Coppélia"; and Petipa's "Giselle". Created with the aid of choreographic notation written in St Petersburg at the turn of the 20th century, these works have been included in the repertoire of the Royal Ballet ever since. The company now uses Peter Wright's 1984 production of "The Nutcracker", which uses some of Sergeyev's