Kalkabrino

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Kalkabrino is a ballet in three acts and three scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Léon Minkus.

Première performance[]

The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Russian Ballet on 13 February 1891, on the Julian calendar (25 February 1891 in the Gregorian calendar) at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Original cast[]

The principal dancers at the première were:

• Carlotta Brianza — as Marietta/Draginiatza
• Enrico Cecchetti — as Reuben
• Pavel Gerdt — as Kalkabrino
• — as René, Marietta's father
• Nikolai Legat — as Olivier
• Marie Petipa — as Cigala.

Production notes[]

• This work was not produced with the participation of Minkus, who had already retired to Vienna in 1886. Instead, the score was a pastiche of airs extracted from several ballets.

See also[]

• Russian ballet

References[]

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