Kalmus Ballet Library

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...

Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville (1805-1879) created several well-known ballets, including NAPOLI, OR THE FISHERMAN AND HIS BRIDE (1842) and THE FLOWER FESTIVAL IN GENZANO (B...

Danish choreographer and ballet master August Bournonville (1805-1879) created several well-known ballets, including NAPOLI, OR THE FISHERMAN AND HIS BRIDE (1842) and THE FLOWER FESTIVAL IN GENZANO (B...

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...

This edition of EL AMOR BRUJO (LOVE, THE SORCERER) is the 1920-1924 revision of the 1915 version by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946). Originally a collaboration between de Falla, the fla...

This edition of EL AMOR BRUJO (LOVE, THE SORCERER) is the 1920-1924 revision of the 1915 version by Spanish composer Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946). Originally a collaboration between de Falla, the fla...

SPRING WATERS: PAS DE DEUX is a short piece for ballet created in 1959 with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943). Set to his song for soprano, SPRING WATERS (No. 11) from 12 ROMANCES, Op. 14, th...