• Le Roi Candaule (en. King Candaules) is a Grand ballet in four acts and six scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. The libretto...
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    Lydia (section Candaules)
    became the 21st and penultimate Heraclid king and the last was his son Candaules (died c. 687 BC). Gyges is the first king whose existence is demonstrable...
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    the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Antal Doráti. Doráti later re-recorded the complete ballet in stereo, with the London Symphony Orchestra...
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    most controversial works of Etty's career. Candaules is based on a story from Herodotus in which king Candaules arranges for his servant Gyges to spy on...
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    stagings have been based. Nearly every balletmaster or choreographer who has re-staged Swan Lake has made modifications to the ballet's scenario, while still...
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    Classical subjects, but the picture failed to interest the public. King Candaules (1859) and Phryne Before the Areopagus and Socrates Seeking Alcibiades...
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    The Little Humpbacked, The Pharaoh's Daughter, Tsar Kandavl or Le Roi Candaule and Giselle. Around the same time he became deeply interested in character...
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  • Almásy was mesmerised by Katharine's voice as she read Herodotus' tale of Candaules aloud by the campfire. They soon began a very intense affair, but she...
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  • Cavalli 18 1666 La Zenobia Matteo Noris Giovanni Antonio Boretti 19 1679–80 Candaule Adriano Morselli Pietro Andrea Ziani 20 1680 Tomiri A. Medolago A. Vitali...
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    who was also known as Meles. Mentioned briefly as the father of Candaules. I. 43 Candaules Lydia 8th to 7th century BC Known as Myrsilos by the Greeks. The...
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    In 1876, Sokolov re-staged the choreography of Saint-Léon in Moscow at the Bolshoi Theatre, using genuine Russian dances. This re-staging separated the...
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    Corsaire for the company. This production—which included a heavily re-edited and re-orchestrated score by the Bolshoi Theatre's conductor Alexander Sotnikov—premiered...
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    716, Lydia: King Candaules of Lydia was killed by his bodyguard, Gyges, who then assumed the throne, having conspired with Candaules's wife. 632, Athens:...
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  • suffice. the Grand Pas de Six (no.19) was deleted (many choreographers have re-worked this number in various stagings, most notably Kenneth MacMillan for...
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  • reconstructions of dances from Marius Petipa's ballets La Bayadère and Le Roi Candaule as well as Le Corsaire. 2014 — Doug Fullington and Alexei Ratmansky used...
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  • Ephesus rose, the Heraclids became weaker and weaker. The last king, Candaules, was murdered by his friend and lance-bearer named Gyges, and he took...
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  • full-length two act Paquita for the Paris Opera Ballet. Although Lacotte re-choreographed all of the ballet himself, he restored Joseph Mazilier's original...
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  • Fille mal gardée was originally released on LP in 1983 (HMV ASD1077701) and re-released in 1988 on CD (Classics for Pleasure 586 1782). Hérold – La Fille...
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  • Henri Meilhac, The Realm of Joy: Being a Free and Easy Version of Le Roi Candaule, edited by Terence Rees (1969) Privately printed. ISBN 0-9500108-1-2 "W...
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    Preobrajenskaya performed as Gamzatti. Among Petipa's changes for this revival was the re-setting of the scene The Kingdom of the Shades from a brightly lit castle...
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    the Pas de Diane in Marius Petipa's 1868 ballet Tsar Kandavl (or Le Roi Candaule), composed by Cesare Pugni and Riccardo Drigo. It is known today as the...
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  • most part, completed, and most of the composers who contributed to the score re-used their music for later works. When scoring the music for Petipa's 1879...
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  • 1685, and the unfinished La pace fra Seleuco e Tolomeo from 1691. 1679: Candaule re di Lidia (reprinted 1680); performed in 1679 with music by Pietro Andrea...
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