Fête russe

Fête russe was a ballet using for its score a medley assembled by Paul Vidal and employing choreography by Joseph Hansen. The six musical pieces forming its score included Fëdor Glinka ’s music for the entr’acte, divertissement and finale of La Vie pour le tzar , Piotr Ilyiteh Tchaikovsky’s Polacca , and Anton Rubinstein ’s Danse circassienne (see eighteenth-century for divertissement). Fête russe had its world premiere at the Garnier Palace on 21 October 1893, and it enjoyed 11 performances at…