The Pharaoh's Daughter
Marius Petipa is noted for his long career as "Premier maître de ballet" ("First Ballet Master") of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, making him Ballet Master and principal choreographer of the Imperial Ballet (today known as the Mariinsky Ballet), a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original. Among these works, he is most noted for "The Pharaoh's Daughter" (1862); "Don Quixote" (1869); "La Bayadère" (1877); "Le Talisman" (1889); "The Sleeping Beauty" (1890); "The Nutcracker" (choreographed jointly with Lev Ivanov) (1892); "Le Réveil de Flore" (1894); "La Halte de cavalerie" (1896); "Raymonda" (1898); "Les Saisons" (1900), and "Les Millions d’Arlequin (a.k.a. Harlequinade)" (1900).