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The Awakening of Flora (ballet)

Le Réveil de Flore
Kschessinskaya and Trefilova, Flora, 1894.jpg
Mathilde Kschessinskaya as the goddess Flora (right) and Vera Trefilova as the god Cupid (left) in the original production of Le Réveil de Flore, 1894.
Choreographer Marius Petipa
Music Riccardo Drigo
Libretto Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Premiere 6 August [O.S. 25 July] 1894 (Peterhof)
14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1895 (Imperial Mariinsky Theatre)
St. Petersburg, Russia
Design Mikhail Bocharov
Genre Ballet anacréontique

Le Réveil de Flore (en. The Awakening of Flora), (ru. «Пробуждение Флоры», Probuzhdenie Flory) is a ballet anacréontique in one act, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo, to a libretto written by Petipa and Lev Ivanov. First presented by the Imperial Ballet at Peterhof Palace on 6 August [O.S. 25 July] 1894.

Le Réveil de Flore was produced for the celebrations held at Peterhof Palace in honor of the wedding of Emperor Alexander III's daughter the Grand Duchess Xenia to the Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich. The ballet was soon transferred to the stage of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre where it was first performed on 14 January [O.S. 2 January] 1895. This performance took place during a farewell benefit for the ballerina Maria Anderson, who had been forced into early retirement after sustaining burn injuries in a theatre fire.

The choreography for Le Réveil de Flore was erroneously credited as a joint effort between Marius Petipa and the Imperial Ballet's second Maître de ballet Lev Ivanov in the original printed theatre programme. A review in the St. Petersburg Gazette of the first répétition générale also credited the choreography to both Petipa and Ivanov. This caused Marius Petipa to write a letter of correction to the newspaper:


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