Julius Reisinger

His work on Swan Lake was considered unsuccessful by contemporary critics, although the ballet was popular enough among the general public that it was kept in the active repertoire of the Bolshoi Theatre for seven years and was performed over thirty times.

[1] He began his professional life as a dancer in the corps de ballet, rising to the position of leading soloist.

He also danced the part of Diavolino in Jules Perrot's ballet Catarina or La Fille du Bandit.

Indications of Reisinger's Moscow endeavors are readily found in the writings of several Russian historians, the first one being a staging of the five-act ballet The Crystal Slipper (1871, a ballet of the Cinderella story) to Muhldorfer's music, which Yuri Bakhrushin referring to original sources, notes as quite successful.

This not only suggests the confidence they had invested in Reisinger, but also confirms that in his first two years in Russia he had clearly won the authority of the Imperial Theatre Directorate.