Magic Mirror
The Magic Mirror is a powerful object first featured in Disney ‘s 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Within it dwells its slave, an imprisoned spirit (resembling a theatrical mask, surrounded by smoke and fire) who always speaks the truth, normally in verse form.
The Magic Mirror become the final ballet to be staged through Petipa and changed into likely his maximum controversial. Prince Serge Volkonsky commissioned Petipa to create the ballet in 1902, however soon afterwards, Volkonsky changed into forced to surrender from his function as director after an incident with the Prima Ballerina, Mathilde Kschessinskaya and rather, The Magic Mirror became staged under the direction of Col. Vladimir Teliakovsky, Petipa’s bitterest enemy. Teliakovsky turned into determined to de-throne Petipa from his rank of ballet grasp and Petipa writes in his memoirs that Teliakovsky would stop at nothing to get rid of him and that he believed it was Teliakovsky’s plan to sabotage what was to be his ultimate ballet. The Magic Mirror become given the maximum appalling staging possible with awful surroundings designs and costumes that had been unfinished and provoked unanimous laughter.
The Magic Mirror become a whole disaster and was obtained with whistles, cat-calls and even shouts of “curtain” in next performances after the première. Although it become given two abridged performances in 1904, the ballet by no means located a permanent region in the Imperial Ballet repertoire. It did, but, discover a home in Moscow, wherein it became staged in a revival by means of Alexander Gorsky and became finished thirty-six times between 1905 and 1911. Despite the failure of the original manufacturing, in all the scathing evaluations for The Magic Mirror, together with a completely infamous one by means of Sergei Diaghilev, Petipa’s choreography is never criticised.
