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    Riccardo Eugenio Drigo (ru. Риккардо Эудженьо Дриго) (30 June 1846 – 1 October 1930) was an Italian composer of ballet music and Italian opera, a theatrical...
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  • Drigo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Paola Drigo (1876–1938), Italian short story writer and novelist Riccardo Drigo...
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    the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatre's chief conductor and composer Riccardo Drigo. There is no evidence to prove who wrote the original libretto, or where...
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  • The 1895 Petipa/Ivanov/Drigo revival of Swan Lake is a famous version of the ballet Swan Lake, (ru. Лебединое Озеро), (fr. Le Lac des Cygnes). This is...
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    music critic. The next year, Ivan Vsevolozhsky commissioned the Italian Riccardo Drigo—principal conductor of the Imperial Ballet & Italian Opera—to compose...
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    Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg Balletmaster: Marius Petipa Conductor: Riccardo Drigo Scene Designers: Henrich Levogt (Prologue), Ivan Andreyev (Act 1), Mikhail...
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  • Riccardo Cucciolla 1924–1999), Italian film actor Riccardo Divora (1908–1951), Italian rower Riccardo Drigo (1846–1930), Italian composer of ballet music...
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    Syncopations, to music by Scott Joplin, 1974 The Enchanted Forest, Riccardo Drigo, 1887 Enigma Variations, to music by Edward Elgar, 1968 Episodes, to...
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    La Perle (ballet) (category Ballets by Riccardo Drigo)
    one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. La Perle was created as a pièce d'occasion for a lavish gala given...
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    accounts credit Petipa. The performance was conducted by Italian composer Riccardo Drigo, with Antonietta Dell'Era as the Sugar Plum Fairy, Pavel Gerdt as Prince...
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    odalisques, and the so-called Le Corsaire pas de deux (music mostly by Riccardo Drigo), which is among classical ballet's most famous and performed excerpts...
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    Endymion. In 1886, Petipa incorporated a new pas de deux, set to music by Riccardo Drigo, into his production of Pugni's La Esmeralda for the Maryinsky Ballet...
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    at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1886, and on this occasion the composer Riccardo Drigo wrote the music for the variation. The music was never used again after...
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    Le Réveil de Flore (category Ballets by Riccardo Drigo)
    anacréontique in one act, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo, to a libretto written by Petipa and Lev Ivanov. First presented by...
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    The Enchanted Forest (ballet) (category Ballets by Riccardo Drigo)
    in one act, originally choreographed by Lev Ivanov to the music of Riccardo Drigo, first presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg...
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    establish 32 fouettés en tournant. The Talisman (music by Riccardo Drigo, 1895) La Perle (music by Drigo, 1896) Raymonda (music by Alexander Glazunov, 1898)...
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    Sgambati (1843–1914) Luigi Denza (1846–1922) Paolo Tosti (1846–1916) Riccardo Drigo (1846–1930) Ernesto Köhler (1849–1907) Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922)...
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  • Sylphide for the Imperial Ballet, with additional music by Riccardo Drigo. A variation Drigo composed for the ballerina Varvara Nikitina in Petipa's version...
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  • Acts and 7 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Riccardo Drigo. Libretto by Konstantin Augustovich Tarnovsky and Marius Petipa. It...
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    Deux from Marius Petipa's ballet, Le Roi Candaule, to the music by Riccardo Drigo and Cesare Pugni, later incorporated into the second act of La Esmeralda...
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  • the ballerina Virginia Zucchi. Musical revision and additional pas by Riccardo Drigo (including a Pas de six for Virginia Zucchi). Petipa added additional...
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    (1900), its libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa, its music by Riccardo Drigo, its dancers the members of St. Petersburg's Imperial Ballet. It would...
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    Les millions d'Arlequin (category Ballets by Riccardo Drigo)
    tableaux with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Riccardo Drigo. It was first presented at the Theatre of the Imperial Hermitage Museum...
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    particular, was performed by Pavlova in several ballets, being composed by Riccardo Drigo for Pavlova's performance in Petipa's ballet Le Roi candaule that features...
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    musicologist Robert-Aloys Mooser, who supposedly learned it from two others—Riccardo Drigo, composer and kapellmeister to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres...
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    Imperial Ballet, with musical additions and revisions to Pugni's score by Riccardo Drigo. First presented on December 6–18, 1895 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre...
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    (en. The Enchanted Forest). Ballet-fantastique in one act. Music by Riccardo Drigo. Imperial Ballet School, 5 April [O.S. 24 March] 1887. Second premiere...
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    Esmeralda pas de six, which Marius Petipa created for her to the music of Riccardo Drigo in 1886. She was a guest artist in Berlin, London, Paris, Madrid, Milan...
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    for his score for the ballet Raymonda. In particular, the scores of Riccardo Drigo contained many pieces for harp in such works as Le Talisman (1889),...
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    the Italian composer and conductor Riccardo Drigo, who was Glazunov's colleague and close friend. Since 1886, Drigo held the posts of director of music...
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