This article is about the 1870 ballet by Petipa and Gerber. For other uses, see Trilby (disambiguation).
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Trilby is a ballet in 2 acts and 3 scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by . Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the 1822 novella Trilby, ou Le Lutin d'Argail by Charles Nodier, first presented by the Ballet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on January 25/February 6 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1870, in Moscow with as Trilby and as Miranda and restaged by Petipa for the Imperial Ballet at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre on January 17–29, 1871 in St. Petersburg with as Trilby and Lev Ivanov as Count Leopold.
The famous variation for the male dancer in the Le Corsaire pas de deux is from Gerber's score for Trilby; a painting of dancers from the ballet in costume (as fledglings emerging from the shell) by Viktor Hartmann was one of the paintings which inspired Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.
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The ballets and *revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia
