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...
![Prince Igor (Nureyev) [1962, Chicago, Civic Opera House]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/2/75541_ca_object_representations_media_1299_small.jpg)
Michel Fokine's "Polovtsian Dances," from Alexander Borodin's opera Prince Igor, were performed by Ruth Page&#...
![(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 ...
![Revenge [1951, Paris, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/3/86239_ca_object_representations_media_1320_small.jpg)
"Revenge" is a ballet in four scenes, choreographed by Ruth Page and based on Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera Il Trovatore,...
"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...
![Merry Widow [1958]](https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/media/cfa/images/1/3/46220_ca_object_representations_media_1334_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...