The Parisian Market or Le Marché des Innocents

The Parisian Market (aka Le Marché des parisien or Les Marché des Innocents) is a comic ballet in one act, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni.

[1] First presented by the Imperial Ballet under the title Le Marché des parisien on 5 May [O.S.

23 April] 1859 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Principal dancers: Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as Lizetta), Marius Petipa (as Simon), and Timofei Stukolkin (as the Marquis Megrèle).

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