XI International Conference of the Study Group on Eighteenth-Century Russia
10th-14th July 2023
Veronika Smirnova (Российский институт истории искусств, Moscow, Russia), "The Transformation of the French Branch of the Eighteenth-Century commedia dell'arte on the Russian imperial ballet stage in St Petersburg"
The paper is devoted to the ballet performances of the St Petersburg stage, which include plots of harlequinades, as well as revealing the presence in these ballets of image-masks of the French branch of commedia dell'arte.
Rococo aesthetics and the French branch of the commedia dell'arte held a special place in performances on the Russian Imperial ballet stage, especially in Saint Petersburg.
