Unopened bud: a few words about the latest Petipa's ballet "Love affair of Rosebud"
This article is dedicates to the last ballet by Marius Petipa - «Le roman d'un bouton de rose et d'un papillon». The ballet was to be staged in 1904 in Saint-Petersburg's Hermitage Theatre (music of ballet was written R.Drigo, libretto and sketchs of costumes were created by Iv.Vsevolozhsky). But the trained ballet was not shown to the public. Only in 1919, «Le roman d'un bouton de rose et d'un papillon» was featured in the version A.Chekrygin. In this article given a chronology of the creation of the ballet, the author has been suggested why the ballet was not staged. Analysis of the ballet music allows you to reconstruct a possible dramatic concept of this ballet.