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La Rose, la violette et le papillon (The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly) is a ballet divertissement in one act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, music by Duke Peter Georgievich of Oldenburg and libretto by Jules Perrot which premiered as a court performance by the Imperial Ballet on 20 October [O.S. 8 October] 1857, for the Imperial court at the theatre of Tsarskoe Selo, St. Petersburg ...
Emma Livry as Farfalla in the ballet Le papillon, Paris, 1861 Le papillon ( The Butterfly ) is a 'fantastic ballet ' in two acts (four scenes) of 1860, with choreography by Marie Taglioni and music by Jacques Offenbach to a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges .
Media in category "Images of butterflies and moths" This category contains only the following file. Plate II Kallima butterfly from Animal Coloration by Frank Evers Beddard 1892.jpg 1,695 × 2,722; 1.77 MB
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Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet. First presented on October 22/November 3, 1895 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. Principal Dancers - Lyubov Roslavleva (as the Butterfly), Nikolai Legat (as the Phoenix Moth), Enrico Cecchetti (as the Grasshopper), Olga Preobrajenskaya (as the Fly), Alexander Shiraev (as the Spider), and Sergei Legat (as the Nightingale).
The Afternoon of a Faun (French: L'Après-midi d'un faune) is a ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, and was first performed in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 29 May 1912. Nijinsky danced the main part himself. The ballet is set to Claude Debussy's symphonic poem Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune.
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