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Trilby is aballet in 2 acts and 3 scenes. It was the final ballet thatMarius Petipa choreographed and staged for the Imperial Bolshoi Ballet during the two years he was commissioned to create new works for the Moscow stage. And the music was byYuli Gerber. Libretto by Marius Petipa, based on the 1822 novellaTrilby, ou Le Lutin d'Argail byCharles Nodier. The ballet was first presented by theBallet of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre on January 25/February 6 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates),1870, inMoscow withPolina Karpakova as Trilby andLudiia Geiten as Miranda. It was later restaged by Petipa for the Imperial Ballet at theImperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre on January 17–29, 1871 in St. Petersburg withAdèle Grantzow as Trilby andLev Ivanov as Count Leopold.[1] Petipa made a more direct adaptation of Nodier’s novella.
The famous variation for the male dancer in theLe Corsaire pas de deux is from Gerber's score forTrilby; a painting of dancers from the ballet in costume (as fledglings emerging from the shell) byViktor Hartmann was one of the paintings which inspiredPictures at an Exhibition byMussorgsky.