Les Aventures de Pélée

Les Aventures de Pélée (The Adventures of Peleus; Russian: Приключения Пелея) is a ballet in three acts and five scenes with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus, with additional music adapted from works by Léo Delibes.[1] The libretto by Marius Petipa is derived from the Greek Myth concerning the Goddess Thetis and the circumstances surrounding her marriage, arranged by Jupiter (or Zeus), to the mortal Peleus.

It was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on January 30 [O.S. January 18] 1876 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kammeny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Eugeniia Sokolova (as the Goddess Thetis), Pavel Gerdt (as Peleus), Lyubov Savitskaya (as Cupid), Mariia Gorshenkova (as Venus), Christian Johansson (as Jupiter), Lev Ivanov (as Adonis), and Platon Karsavin (as Triton).

## Revivals

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The ballet was revived by Marius Petipa as Les Noces de Thétis et Pélée in one act/3 scenes for the Imperial Ballet, with Riccardo Drigo making additions and revising the Minkus/Delibes score, and presented for the Imperial court outdoor at Olga Island in the parc of Peterhof on 9 August [O.S. 28 July] 1897, for a gala performance in honour of a state visit from Kaiser Wilhelm II. Principal Dancers: Mathilde Kschessinskaya (as the Goddess Thetis), Pavel Gerdt (as Peleus), Olga Preobrajenskaya (as Cupid), Olga Leonova (as Venus), Lyubov Roslavleva (as Flora), Alexei Bulgakov (as Jupiter), and Sergei Legat (as Adonis).

There was only one full resumption of this ballet by choreographer Alexey Bogdanov.

## References

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1. ^ Letellier, Robert Ignatius (2008-10-01). The Ballets of Ludwig Minkus. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 12\. ISBN 978-1-4438-0080-8.

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The ballets and revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia

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)

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)
* Camargo (1872)
* Le Papillon (*1874)
* Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (*1874, *1892)
* The Bandits (1875)
* The Adventures of Peleus (1876, *1897)
* La Bayadère (1877, *1900)
* Roxana (1878)
* Ariadne (1878)
* The Daughter of the Snows (1879)
* Frizak the Barber (1879)
* Mlada (1879, *1896)

1880–99|

* La Fille du Danube (*1880)
* Zoraiya (1881)
* La Vivandière (as "Markitenka") (*1881)
* Pâquerette (*1882)
* The Night and the Day (1883)
* Pygmalion (1883)
* Coppélia (*1884)
* Giselle (*1884, 1899, 1903)
* Le Diable à Quatre (as "The Willful Wife") (*1885)
* La Fille Mal Gardée (*1885)
* The Magic Pills (1886)
* The King's Command (1886, *1887, *1900)
* La Esmeralda (*1886, *1899)
* The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886)
* * Fiametta (1887)
* The Vestal (1888)
* The Talisman (1889, *1895)
* The Enchanted Forest (*1889)
* The Caprices of a Butterfly (1889, *1895)
* The Sleeping Beauty (1890)
* Nénuphar (1890)
* Kalkabrino (1891)
* A Fairy Tale (1891)
* La Sylphide (*1892)
* The Nutcracker (1892)
* Cinderella (1893)
* The Awakening of Flora (1894)
* Swan Lake (*1895)
* The Little Humpbacked Horse (as "The Tsar Maiden") (*1895)
* The Cavalry Halt (1896)
* The Pearl (1896)
* Bluebeard (1896)
* Raymonda (1898)

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)

an asterisk * indicates a revival.

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Léo Delibes

* List of operas and operettas
* List of compositions

Operas|

* Le roi l'a dit (1873)
* Jean de Nivelle (1880)
* Lakmé (1883)
* "Flower Duet"
* Kassya (completed by Jules Massenet, 1893)

Ballets|

* Le Corsaire
* La source (1866)
* Coppélia (1870)
* Sylvia

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