Nepotism shaped his career, as he made his performing debut at age 12 in his father's 1832 Brussels production of Pierre Gardel's La Dansomanie.
Nepotism shaped his career, as he made his performing debut at age 12 in his father's 1832 Brussels production of Pierre Gardel's La Dansomanie. Contributions to La Fleur de Grenade and La Perle de Seville highlighted his four year stay in Madrid, but it was during his stay abroad in another country where he had his first great success, The Pharoah's Daughter, whose music was written by Cesare Pugni. The exotic costumes and settings of that work, much like his revival of Le Corsaire and his La Bayadere, became trademarks of this man, who spent over four decades with the Imperial Theatre and worked with Alexander Glazunov on Raymonda. FTP, name this French-born, St. Petersburg- based choreographer of Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, often called the father of Russian classical ballet.
Nepotism shaped his career, as he made his performing debut at age 12 in his father's 1832 Brussels production of Pierre Gardel's La Dansomanie.
Marius {Petipa}