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The Magic Mirror (ballet)
''Le Miroir Magique'' (en. ''The Magic Mirror'') is a ''ballet-féerie'' in four acts and seven scenes, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Arseny Koreshchenko. The libretto is based on the fairy tale ''Snow White'' by the Brothers Grimm and the poem ''The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights'' by Alexander Pushkin. The ballet was premièred on the at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
== History ==
''The Magic Mirror'' was the final ballet to be staged by Petipa and was probably his most controversial. Prince Serge Volkonsky commissioned Petipa to create the ballet in 1902, but soon afterwards, Volkonsky was forced to resign from his position as director after an incident with the Prima Ballerina, Mathilde Kschessinskaya and instead, ''The Magic Mirror'' was staged under the direction of Col. Vladimir Teliakovsky, Petipa's bitterest enemy. Teliakovsky was determined to de-throne Petipa from his rank of ballet master and Petipa writes in his memoirs that Teliakovsky would stop at nothing to get rid of him and that he believed it was Teliakovsky's plan to sabotage what was to be his last ballet. ''The Magic Mirror'' was given the most appalling staging imaginable with horrific scenery designs and costumes that were unfinished and provoked unanimous laughter.
''The Magic Mirror'' was a complete disaster and was received with whistles, cat-calls and even shouts of "curtain" in subsequent performances after the première. Although it was given two abridged performances in 1904, the ballet never found a permanent place in the Imperial Ballet repertoire. It did, however, find a home in Moscow, where it was staged in a revival by Alexander Gorsky and was performed thirty-six times between 1905 and 1911. Despite the failure of the original production, in all the scathing reviews for ''The Magic Mirror'', including a very notorious one by Sergei Diaghilev, Petipa's choreography is never criticised.
Petipa gives the following account in his memoirs of how he was convinced that the ballet's poor staging was all part of a conspiracy to get rid of him:
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