William McDermott

GISELLE, a two-act ballet by French composer Adolphe Adam (1803-1856), was premiered in Paris on June 28, 1841, and is, along with the Christmas carol MINUIT, CHRÉTIENS (O HOLY NIGHT in English), Adam...

Paquita is a two-act ballet choreographed by 19th century French dancer and ballet master Joseph Mazilier. It was originally set to music by Édouard Deldevez in 1846 and premiered early that year at t...

The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world’s most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 red...

While the original SWAN LAKE ballet, the story of Prince Siegfried's love for the Swan Queen, enchanted by the evil magician Rothbart to turn into a swan everyday, more or less succeeded at its 1877,...

While the original SWAN LAKE ballet, the story of Prince Siegfried's love for the Swan Queen, enchanted by the evil magician Rothbart to turn into a swan everyday, more or less succeeded at its 1877,...

Les Sylphides is a ballet blanc set to the music of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) by Russian composer, teacher, and conductor Alexander Glazunov. Described as a "romantic reverie" by dance historian and...

Les Sylphides is a ballet blanc set to the music of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) by Russian composer, teacher, and conductor Alexander Glazunov. Described as a “romantic reverie” by dance historian and...

Léo Delibes' (1836-1891) Coppélia (1870) is a comic ballet that tells the story of a sinister doctor who has made a beautiful, life-sized dancing doll (the title character) and the young man who becom...

Léo Delibes' (1836-1891) Coppélia (1870) is a comic ballet that tells the story of a sinister doctor who has made a beautiful, life-sized dancing doll (the title character) and the young man who becom...

The GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE was conceived of by famous 20th century Russian dancer, teacher and choreographer Victor Gsovsky as a stand-alone pas de deux. Meant to be an homage to classical ballet style a...

The GRAND PAS CLASSIQUE was conceived of by famous 20th century Russian dancer, teacher and choreographer Victor Gsovsky as a stand-alone pas de deux. Meant to be an homage to classical ballet style a...

The history behind the composition and implementation of the Diane et Actéon Pas de Deux can be confusing. The first version of this pas, with music by Riccardo Drigo (1846-1930), appears to have been...

The history behind the composition and implementation of the Diane et Actéon Pas de Deux can be confusing. The first version of this pas, with music by Riccardo Drigo (1846-1930), appears to have been...

An idea from composer Constant Lambert, who was the music director of the Vic-Wells Ballet during the 1930s, LES PATINEURS (The Skaters) combines vocal and dance numbers from two Giacomo Meyerbeer ope...

An idea from composer Constant Lambert, who was the music director of the Vic-Wells Ballet during the 1930s, LES PATINEURS (The Skaters) combines vocal and dance numbers from two Giacomo Meyerbeer ope...

The ballet La Bayadère ("The Temple Dancer" or "The Temple Maiden") was created in 1877 for famed French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917). In four act and seven tablea...

The ballet La Bayadère ("The Temple Dancer" or "The Temple Maiden") was created in 1877 for famed French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917). In four act and seven tablea...

The ballet La Bayadère ("The Temple Dancer" or "The Temple Maiden") was created in 1877 for famed French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917). In four act and seven tablea...

The ballet La Bayadère ("The Temple Dancer" or "The Temple Maiden") was created in 1877 for famed French choreographer Marius Petipa to music by Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917). In four act and seven tablea...

Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917) was a Jewish-Austian composer of ballet music, spending most of his career as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. Over th...

Ludwig Minkus (1826-1917) was a Jewish-Austian composer of ballet music, spending most of his career as the official Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres in Russia. Over th...

Inspired by the ever-popular 1831 novel Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) by Victor Hugo, La Esmeralda is a three-act ballet that follows the story of Esmeralda, the beautiful Romani w...

The ballet Les Millions d'Arlequin (The Harlequin's Millions; Harlequinade) was one of three short ballets commissioned to the famed choreographer Marius Petipa of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatr...

The ballet Les Millions d'Arlequin (The Harlequin's Millions; Harlequinade) was one of three short ballets commissioned to the famed choreographer Marius Petipa of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatr...

The Nutcracker has achieved the status of being the world's most popular and most often performed ballet. This is the first edition with a complete full score to accompany William McDermott's 1969 red...