Famous Ballets
The table below displays a list of famous ballets by alphabet, along with the choreographer, music writer, and year/place of the first performance. Where ballets have been re-choreographed into more popular modern versions, the first performance of both the original and modern versions are displayed.
| Ballet Name | Choreographer | Music Writer | First Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Wedding Bouquet | Ashton | Lord Berners | London (1936) |
| Agon | Balanchine | Igor Stravinsky | Los Angeles (1957) |
| Apollo Musagetes (Apollo, Leader of the Muses) | Balanchine | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1928) |
| Apollo Musagetes (Apollo, Leader of the Muses) | Bolm | Igor Stravinsky | Washington (1928) |
| Appalachian Spring | Martha Graham | Aaron Copland | Washington (1944) |
| Bacchus and Ariadne | Lifar | Albert Roussel | Paris (1931) |
| Billy the Kid | Loring | Aaron Copland | Chicago (1938) |
| Bolero | Nijinskaya | Maurice Ravel | Paris (1928) |
| Caroline Mathilde | Flindt | Peter Maxwell Davies | Amsterdam (1991) |
| Checkmate | de Valois | Arthur Bliss | Paris (1937) |
| Cinderella | Ashton | Sergey Prokofiev | Moscow (1948) |
| Coppelia | Saint-Leon | Leo Delibes | Paris (1870) |
| Daphnis et Chloe | Ashton | Maurice Ravel | London (1957) |
| Daphnis et Chloe | Fokine | Maurice Ravel | Paris (1912) |
| Don Quixote | Petipa | Leon Minkus | St Petersburg (1869) |
| Edward II | Bintley | John McCabe | Stuttgart (1996) |
| El Amor brujo (Love the Magician) | Falla (as pantomime) La Argentinita (as ballet in 1931) | Manuel de Falla | Madrid (1915) |
| Facade | Ashton | William Walton | London (1931) |
| Fall River Legend | de Mille | Morton Gould | New York (1948) |
| Fancy Free | Robbins | Leonard Bernstein | New York (1944) |
| Firebird | Fokine | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1910) |
| Gaffe Parisienne | Massine | Manuel Rosenthal (arr. of Offenbach's music) | Monte Carlo (1938) |
| Gayane | Anisimova | Aram Khachaturian | Leningrad (1942) |
| Giselle, or the Wilis | Coralli and Perrot | Adolphe Adam | Paris (1841) |
| Giselle, or the Wilis | Petipa | Adolphe Adam | St Petersburg (1884) |
| Homage to the Queen | Ashton | Malcolm Arnold | London (1953) |
| Horoscope | Ashton | Constant Lambert | London (1938) |
| Jeux (Games) | Nijinsky | Claude Debussy | Paris (1913) |
| Josephslegende (Legend of Joseph) | Fokine | Richard Strauss | London and Paris (1914) |
| La Bayadere | Petipa | Leon Minkus | St Petersburg (1877) |
| La Boutique Fantastique | Massine | Ottorino Respighi (arr. of Rossini's music) | London (1919) |
| La Creation du Monde | Berlin | Darius Milhaud | Paris (1923) |
| La Fille mal gardee (The Unchaperoned Girl) | Ashton | John Lanchbery (arr. of Ferdinand Herold's music) | London (1960) |
| La Ventana | Bournonville | Holm Lumbye | Copenhagen (1854) |
| L'Apres-midi d'un faun | Nijinsky | Claude Debussy | Paris (1912) |
| L'Apres-midi d'un faun | Robbins | Claude Debussy | New York (1946) |
| Le Festin de l'araignee (Spider's Banquet) | Staats | Albert Roussel | Paris (1913) |
| Le Pas d'Acier | Massine | Sergey Prokofiev | Paris (1927) |
| Le Spectre de la Rose | Fokine | Carl Maria Weber | Monte Carlo (1911) |
| Les Biches | Nijinskaya | Francis Poulenc | Monte Carlo (1924) |
| Les Deux Pigeons | Merante | Andre Messager | Paris (1886) |
| Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel | Berlin | Les Six (excluding Durey) | Paris (1921) |
| Les Petits Riens | Jean Noverre | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Paris (1778) |
| Les Sylphides | Merante | Frederic Chopin | Paris (1876) |
| Madame Chrysanthéme | Ashton | Alan Rawsthorne | London (1955) |
| Miracle in the Gorbals | Helpmann | Arthur Bliss | London (1944) |
| Miss Julie | MacMillan | Andrzej Panufnik | Stuttgart (1970) |
| Nobilissima Vision | Massine | Paul Hindemith | Monte Carlo (1938) |
| Nutcracker | Ivanov | Pyotr Tchaikovslry | St Petersburg (1892) |
| Ondine (Undine) | Ashton | Hans Werner Henze | London (1958) |
| Orpheus | Balanchine | Igor Stravinsky | New York (1948) |
| Parade | Massine | Erik Satie | Paris (1917) |
| Paul Bunyan | Ballet for puppets | William Bergsma | San Francisco (1939) |
| Peer Gynt | Neumeier | Alfred Schnittke | Hamburg (1986) |
| Persephone | Ashton | Igor Stravinsky | London (1962) |
| Persephone | Jooss | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1934) |
| Petrushka | Fokine | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1911) |
| Pineapple Poll | Cranko | Arthur Sullivan (arr. By Mackerras) | Sadler's Wells (1951) |
| Pulcinella | Massine | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1920) |
| Raymonda | Petipa | Alexander Glazunov | Paris (1898) |
| Rodeo | de Mille | Aaron Copland | New York (1942) |
| Romeo and Juliet | MacMillan | Sergey Prokofiev | London (1965) |
| Romeo and Juliet | Psota | Sergey Prokofiev | Brno (1938) |
| Salome | Flindt | Peter Maxwell Davies | Copenhagen (1978) |
| Scaramouche | Walbom | Jean Sibelius | Copenhagen (1922) |
| Scheherazade | Fokine | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov | Paris (1910) |
| Schlagobers (Whipped Cream) | Krieller | Richard Strauss | Vienna and Breslau (1924) |
| Spartacus | Jacobson | Aram Khachaturian | Leningrad (1956) |
| Swan Lake | Petipa and lvanov | Pyotr Tchaikovsky | St Petersburg (1895) |
| Swan Lake | Reisinger | Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Moscow (1877) |
| Sylvia, ou La Nymph de Diane | Ashton | Leo Delibes | London (1952) |
| Sylvia, ou La Nymph de Diane | Fokine | Leo Delibes | St Petersburg (1907) |
| The Age of Gold | Kaplan and Vaynonen | Dmitry Shostakovich | Leningrad (1930) |
| The Bolt | Lopokov | Dmitry Shostakovich | Leningrad (1931) |
| The Box of Toys | Andre Helle | Claude Debussy | Paris (1919) |
| The Creatures of Prometheus | Ashton | Ludwig van Beethoven | Bonn (1970) |
| The Creatures of Prometheus | Viganb | Ludwig van Beethoven | Vienna (1801) |
| The Fairy's Kiss | MacMillan | Igor Stravinsky | London (1980) |
| The Fairy's Kiss | Nijinskaya | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1928) |
| The Four Temperaments | Balanchine | Paul Hindemith | New York (1946) |
| The Good-Humoured Ladies | Massine | Domenico Scarlatti (arr. by Tommasini) | Rome (1917) |
| The Haunted Ballroom | de Valois | Geoffrey Toye | London (1934) |
| The Pen | Clustine | Paul Dukas | Paris (1912) |
| The Prince of the Pagodas | Cranko | Benjamin Britten | Covent Garden (1957) |
| The Prince of the Pagodas | MacMillan | Benjamin Britten | London (1995) |
| The Prodigal Son | Balanchine | Sergey Prokofiev | Paris (1929) |
| The Rake's Progress | de Valois | Gavin Gordon | London (1935) |
| The Rite of Spring | MacMillan | Igor Stravinsky | London (1962) |
| The Rite of Spring | Nijinsky | Igor Stravinsky | London and Paris (1913) |
| The Sanguine Fan | Hynd (1976 revival) | Edward Elgar | London (1917) |
| The Seven Deadly Sins | Balanchine | Kurt Weill | Paris (1933) |
| The Sleeping Beauty | Petipa | Pyotr Tchaikovsky | St Petersburg (1890) |
| The Song of the Earth | MacMillan | Gustav Mahler | London (1965) |
| The Stone Flower | Lavrovsky | Sergey Prokofiev | Moscow (1954) |
| The Tales of Hoffmann | Darrell | Jacques Offenbach (arr. Lanchbery) | London (1973) |
| The Three-Cornered Hat | Massine | Manuel de Fella | London (1919) |
| The Triumph of Neptune | Balanchine | Lord Berners | London (1926) |
| The Wedding (Les Noces) | Nijinskaya | Igor Stravinsky | Paris (1923) |
| The Wise Virgins | Ashton | William Walton | Sadler's Wells (1940) |
| The Wooden Prince | Balks | Bela Bartok | Budapest (1917) |
| Tiresias | Ashton | Constant Lambert | London (1951) |
