![Merry Widow [1955]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/2/4753_ca_object_representations_media_2277_small.jpg)
"The Merry Widow" (originally "Vilia") is a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page, based on the operetta by Franz Lehár. It was first premiered in Manc...
![Thaïs [1959, Chicago, Civic Opera House]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/2/41381_ca_object_representations_media_2297_small.jpg)
"Thaïs" is a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page, based on the opera by Jules Massenet, itself based on the novel by Anatole France. ...
![My Man - Camille (Act I pas de deux) [1958]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/2/97775_ca_object_representations_media_2279_small.jpg)
This film is part of a television episode from 1958, wherein two pieces, presumably both choreographed by Ruth Page, are danced by Barbara Steele, ...
This film represents a brief segment of the April 6, 1958 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS). It was billed as The Chicago Opera Ballet (17 danc...
![Ed Sullivan Show: Merry Widow (Marsovian Ball scene) [April 6, 1958]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/2/99224_ca_object_representations_media_2256_small.jpg)
This film represents a brief segment of the April 6, 1958 episode of The Ed Sullivan Show (CBS). It was billed as The Chicago Opera Ballet (17 danc...
![Salome and Herod [1952]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/2/22191_ca_object_representations_media_2294_small.jpg)
"Salomé and Herod" is a short pas de deux ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and Bentley Stone based on Richard Strauss's 1905 ...
![Americans in Paris [1950]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/2/91623_ca_object_representations_media_2229_small.jpg)
Ruth Page choreographed one of the first ballet versions of "An American in Paris," an orchestral piece by George Gershwin (1928). Page's ballet w...
"Salomé and Herod" is a short pas de deux ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and Bentley Stone based on Richard Strauss's 1905 ...
"Thaïs" is a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page, based on the opera by Jules Massenet, itself based on the novel by Anatole France. ...
"Thaïs" is a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page, based on the opera by Jules Massenet, itself based on the novel by Anatole France. ...
![(Dressing Room tour) [1957]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/4/0/47525_ca_object_representations_media_4026_small.jpg)
This brief film represents a peak 'backstage' before a dance performance, presumably during the first U.S. tour of Ruth Page's Chicago ...
![Carmen [1959]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/2/47271_ca_object_representations_media_1280_small.jpg)
Ruth Page has staged at least 4 versions of Carmen, all set to Georges Bizet's original opera music. The first version was choreographed and perfor...
![Aïda [1955]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/39965_ca_object_representations_media_2179_small.jpg)
"Aïda" is a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page to accompany the 1871 opera by Giuseppe Verdi. She seems to have choreographed three v...
![Susanna and the Barber (The Dancing Lesson) [1955]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/2/1/89832_ca_object_representations_media_2180_small.jpg)
"Susanna and the Barber" is a ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and based on the Gioachino Rossini opera The Barber of Seville
"Salomé and Herod" is a short pas de deux ballet choreographed by Ruth Page and Bentley Stone based on Richard Strauss's 1905 ...
![Revenge [1951, Chicago, University of Chicago, Mandel Hall]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/3/32382_ca_object_representations_media_1304_small.jpg)
"Revenge" is a ballet in four scenes, choreographed by Ruth Page and based on Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera Il Trovatore,...