Bluebeard (ballet)
| Barbe-bleue | |
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Frontispiece of the piano reduction of Pyotr Schenk's score for Marius Petipa's grand ballet Barbe-bleue as issued by the music publisher P. Jurgenson | |
| Choreographer | Marius Petipa |
| Music | Pyotr Schenk |
| Libretto | Lydia Pashkova |
| Based on | Charles Perrault's Bluebeard |
| Premiere | December 20 [O.S. December 8] 1896 Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg |
| Design | Pyotr Lambin (act I) Konstantin Ivanov Heinrich Levogt (act III/scene 2 & apotheosis) |
| Created for | Benefit performance of Marius Petipa, in honor of his 50th anniversary in service to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres |
| Type | Ballet-féerie |
Barbe-bleue (lit. 'Bluebeard'; Russian: Синяя борода, romanized: Sinyaya boroda) is a ballet-féerie in three acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa to the music of Pyotr Schenk. The libretto was created by the author and dramatist Countess Lydia Pashkova from the fairy tale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 20 [O.S. December 8] 1896 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, the first performance being a benefit in honor of Marius Petipa's fiftieth anniversary in service to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres.