Cesare Pugni

Photo of Maestro Cesare Pugni (1802-1870). Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre, London (1843-1850); Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres (1850-1870).

Lithograph by unknown of the composer Cesare Pugni, circa 1845. Come from my collection and was scanned be me. Mrlopez2681 19:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Maestro Cesare Pugni. St. Petersburg, circa 1860.

Act I of the ballet La Esmeralda on the stage of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre with cast.

Photo of cast members of the Bolshoi Theatre in Alexander Gorsky's revival of the ballet "The Little Humpbacked Horse". Moscow, 1901. In the center of the photograph are Lyubov Roslavleva as the Tsar Maiden (front, standing), Vasily Tikhomirov as the Humpbacked Horse (center, back) and Nikolai Domashev as Ivanushka (center, lying down). Also pictured (left to right, wearing white) are the dancers of the corps de ballet Pavlova, Sokolova, Chumakova, Domasheva, Nikolaeva and Pozhitskaya.

* Music title-page and piano score (5 p.). Cerrito at right on pointe, wearing a peasant costume, male dancer, perhaps Jean Coralli, at left also in peasant costume.

Photograph of the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre with cast in act 2/scene 1 ("A Fisherman's hut on the banks of the Nile") of an 1898 revival of the choreographer Marius Petipa (1818-1910) & the composer Cesare Pugni's (1803-1870) grand ballet of 1862 "The Pharaoh's Daughter". In the center is the ballerina Mathilde Kschessinskaya as the Princess Aspicia with Pavel Gerdt as Taor/Lord Wilson. Seated, right of center, is Alfred Bekefi as Passifont/John Bull.

Photograph of the stage of the Mariinsky Theatre showing act 2/scene 2 ("The Underwater Kingdom at the bottom of the Nile") of an 1898 revival of the choreographer Marius Petipa (1818-1910) & the composer Cesare Pugni's (1803-1870) grand ballet of 1862 "The Pharaoh's Daughter".

Photo of Maestro Cesare Pugni (1802-1870). Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre, London (1843-1850); Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres (1850-1870).