Solor Posted February 21, 2006 Share Posted February 21, 2006 I have some questions, if anyone can help, about Minkus's last years w/ Petipa & the Imperial Ballet. The post of 'First Imperial Ballet Composer' was abolished in 1886. Minkus's last ballets for Petipa were "The Magic Pills" and "The Offerings of Love" both in 1886. Petipa and Ivanov staged a revival of Minkus's "Fiametta" in 1887, though I dont know if Minkus had a hand in it, and then there were no other ballets from Minkus until his last work "Kalkabrino" in 1891. Why such a long gap? The years that followed saw "The Vesatle", "The Talisman", and of course "The Sleeping Beauty", but then there was this last ballet from Minkus "Kalkabrino", the only part that survives in performance as far as I know is a variation often danced in "Paquita". Could it be that Petipa had had enough of the 'new' composers of ballet music and went back for one last one with good ole Minkus? Link to comment
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