Variations in “Paquita”- Choreographed by Marius Petipa

Paquita is a ballet in two acts and three scenes originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier to music by Édouard Deldevez and Ludwig Minkus. Paul Foucher received royalties as librettist.
In 1847, Paquita was staged for the first time in Russia for the Imperial Ballet of St. Petersburg by Marius Petipa and Pierre-Frédéric Malavergne, being the first work ever staged by Petipa in Russia. In 1881, Petipa produced a revival of the ballet for which he added new pieces specially composed by Ludwig Minkus. This included the Paquita pas de trois for the first act and the Paquita grand pas classique and the Mazurka des enfants for the last act. Petipa's version of Paquita was retained in the repertory of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1926.
Petipa's 1881 additions for Paquita survived long after the full-length ballet left the stage. Today these pieces, particularly the Grand pas classique, are major cornerstones of the traditional classical ballet repertory and have been staged by ballet companies throughout the world.

00:00 1st Variation in Pas de Trois
Performer : Nadezhda Gonchar
01:24 2nd Variation in Pas de Trois
Performer : Yana Selina
02:20 Variation from “The Naiad and the Fisherman”
Performer : Alina Somova
03:30 Variation from “King Candaule”
Performer : Yekaterina Kondaurova
06:15 Variation from “Don Quixote”
Performer : Veronika Ivanova
07:07 Variation from “Armida’s Pavilion”
Performer : Evgenia Obraztsova
08:19 Variation from “The Stream”
Performer : Ekaterina Krysanova
09:50 Variation from “La Camargo”
Performer : Marianna Ryzhkina
12:14 Variation from “King Candaule” (Called “Vestalka”)
Performer : Anna Antonicheva
14:03 Variation (known as Variation of Lucien)
Performer : Nadezhda Gracheva
15:34 Variation from “Armida”
Performer : Natalia Osipova
16:37 Variation from “Le Corsaire”
Performer : Nadezhda Gonchar
18:00 Variation (Variation for Anna Pavlova)
Performer : Maria Khoreva
19:16 Variation from “Trilbi”
Performer : Viktoria Tereshkina
20:33 Variation from “La Sylphide” (Called “Etoile”)
Performer : Ulyana Lopatkina