A Fairy Tale (ballet)

A Fairy Tale (AKA A Magic Tale) - Fantastic ballet in 1 Act, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by (?) Richter.

First presented by students of the Imperial Ballet School on April 4/16 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1891 in the theatre of the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Notes

Anna Pavlova participated in this ballet when she was ten years old during her first year as a student at the Imperial Ballet School. It was the first ballet she ever danced in at the Mariinsky Theatre. Her last performance at the Mariinsky would be as Nikiya in La Bayadère in 1914.

The ballets and *revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia
1847–59	Paquita (1847, 1881) Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (1848) Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid* (1849) Giselle (1850, 1884, 1899, 1903) The Star of Granada (1855) The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857) Le Corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899) A Marriage During the Regency* (1858) The Parisian Market (1859, *1861)
1860–79	The Blue Dahlia (1860, 1875) Terpsichore* (1861) The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, 1885, 1898) The Beauty of Lebanon (1863) The Traveling Dancer (1864) Florida (1866) Titania (1866) Faust (1867) The Benevolent Cupid* (1868) The Slave (1868) Le Roi Candaule (1868, 1891, 1903) Don Quixote (1869, 1871) Trilby* (1870) Catarina (1870) The Two Stars* (1871) Camargo (1872) Le Papillon (1874) Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman")* (1874, 1892) The Bandits (1875) The Adventures of Peleus (1876, 1897) La Bayadère* (1877, 1900) Roxana* (1878) Ariadne (1878) The Daughter of the Snows (1879) Frizak the Barber (1879) Mlada (1879, *1896)
1880–99	La Fille du Danube (1880) Zoraiya* (1881) La Vivandière (as "Markitenka") (1881) Pâquerette* (1882) The Night and the Day* (1883) Pygmalion (1883) Coppélia (1884) Giselle* (1884, 1899, 1903) Le Diable à Quatre (as "The Willful Wife")* (1885) La Fille Mal Gardée* (1885) The Magic Pills* (1886) The King's Command (1886, 1887, 1900) La Esmeralda (1886, 1899) The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886) * Fiametta (1887) The Vestal (1888) The Talisman (1889, 1895) The Enchanted Forest* (1889) The Caprices of a Butterfly* (1889, 1895) The Sleeping Beauty* (1890) Nénuphar (1890) Kalkabrino (1891) A Fairy Tale (1891) La Sylphide (1892) The Nutcracker* (1892) Cinderella (1893) The Awakening of Flora (1894) Swan Lake (1895) The Little Humpbacked Horse (as "The Tsar Maiden")* (1895) The Cavalry Halt* (1896) The Pearl (1896) Bluebeard (1896) Raymonda (1898)
1900–03	Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900) The Seasons (1900) Harlequinade (1900) The Heart of the Marquis (1902) The Magic Mirror (1903) The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)

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