The life and ballets of Lev Ivanov : choreographer of The Nutcracker and Swan Lake / Roland John Wiley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wiley, Roland John, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ivanov, Lev, 1834-1901.

Ivanov, Lev.

Choreographers--Russia--Biography.

Choreographers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Wiley follows Ivanov from his infancy in a St Petersburg foundling home through his training in the Imperial Theatre School to a career as dancer, régisseur and choreographer in the St Petersburg Imperial Ballet.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; I: THE LIFE OF LEV IVANOVICH IVANOV; 1 Ivanov's Memoirs; 2 Lev Ivanov's Life; II: THE BALLETS OF LEV IVANOV; 3 Ivanov's First Ballets; 4 The Tulip of Haarlem; 5 Krasnoe Selo; 6 Operatic Interludes; 7 The Nutcracker; 8 Between The Nutcracker and Swan Lake; 9 Swan Lake; 10 Ivanov's Last Ballets; Conclusion; Appendices; A: Works in which Lev Ivanov Danced; B: The Compositions of Lev Ivanov; C: The Libretti of Lev Ivanov's Ballets; D: Evgenia Pavlovna Sokolova's Notes on the Part of Lise in La Fille mal gardée; Select Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references (pages[287]-291) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

9781383008418

1383008418

9780191657597

019165759X

OCLC:

881417126

Publisher Number:

2027/heb05954 hdl