Marius Petipa Virtually Established Classical Ballet As We Know It Today. But Most Of His Own Ballets Were Pretty Bad
The standards set by the French-born ballet master in his decades at the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg have had a defining influence on the art form ever since. But only three of his story ballets " Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère, and Don Quixote " are in the repertory today, and of those only Sleeping […]