The Parisian Market is a comic ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a type of performance dance, that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century, and which was further developed in France and Russia as a concert dance form. The early portions preceded the invention of the proscenium stage and were presented in large chambers with...

in one act, with choreography by Marius Petipa

Marius Petipa

Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa was a French ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. Petipa is considered to be the most influential ballet master and choreographer of ballet that has ever lived....

, and music by Cesare Pugni

Cesare Pugni

Cesare Pugni was an Italian composer of ballet music, a pianist and a violinist. In his early career he composed operas, symphonies, and various other forms of orchestral music. Pugni is most noted for the ballets he composed while serving as Composer of the Ballet Music to Her Majesty's Theatre...

. Libretto by Marius Petipa.

First presented by the Imperial Ballet

Mariinsky Ballet

The Mariinsky Ballet is a classical ballet company based at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of the world's leading ballet companies...

 under the title Le Marché des parisien on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal dancers: Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa

Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa

Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa , was prima ballerina to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and wife of the noted choreographer Marius Petipa.- Life :...

 (as Lizetta), Marius Petipa (as Simon), and Timofei Stukolkin (as the Marquis Megrèle).

Revivals/Restagings

• Restaged by Marius Petipa for the Ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique, (AKA The Paris Opera) under the title Les Marché des Innocents. First presented on 29 May 1861. For this production Petipa changed the names of the characters Lizetta and Marquis Megrèle to Gloriette and Lindor. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa
  Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa
  Mariia Sergeyevna Surovshchikova-Petipa , was prima ballerina to the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres and wife of the noted choreographer Marius Petipa.- Life :...
  
   (as Gloriette), and Louis Mérante
  Louis Mérante
  Louis Alexandre Mérante was a dancer and choreographer, the Maître de Ballet of the Paris Opera Ballet at the Salle Le Peletier until its destruction by fire in 1873, and subsequently the first Ballet Master at the company's new Palais Garnier, which opened in 1875...
  
   (as Lindor).

• Revival by Lev Ivanov
  Lev Ivanov
  Lev Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer and later, Second Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet....
  
   for the Imperial Ballet. First presented for the Imperial court at the theatre of Krasnoe Selo, St. Petersburg, on July 6–18, 1892.

• Revival by Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet. First presented at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre, St. Peterbsurg, on January 8–20 1895. Principal Dancers - Maria Anderson (as Lizetta), Sergai Litavkii (as Simon), Enrico Cecchetti
  Enrico Cecchetti
  Enrico Cecchetti was an Italian ballet dancer, mime, and founder of the Cecchetti method. The son of two dancers from Civitanova Marche, he was born in the costuming room of the Teatro Tordinona in Rome. After an illustrious career as a dancer in Europe, he went to dance for the Imperial Ballet in...
  
  (as the Marquis Megrèle)