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unusual facts about Cesare Pugni



Elisa Orlandi

She returned to the Teatro della Canobbiana for several more appearances later that year, including Joseph Weigl's L'imboscata, the premiere of Cesare Pugni's Il contrabbandiere, and the house's first stagings of Giovanni Pacini's Il falegname di Livonia (Catterina) and De Moyana's Emma di Fondi (Emma).

Ivan Vsevolozhsky

In 1886, Vsevolozhsky initiated two major reforms for the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, namely the relocation of the Imperial Ballet and Opera from the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre (deemed unsafe by 1886) to the Mariinsky Theatre, and the abolition of the post of First Imperial Ballet Composer, a post previously held by such composers as Léon Minkus and Cesare Pugni.

Ondine, ou La naïade

July, 1851.Ondine, ou La naïade is a ballet in three acts and six scenes with choreography by Jules Perrot, music by Cesare Pugni and a libretto inspired by the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué.


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