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The Beauty of Lebanon or The Mountain Spirit

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The Beauty of Lebanon, or The Mountain Spirit (French: La Belle du Liban, ou L'Esprit des montagnes; Russian: Ливанская красавица, или Горный дух) is a fantastic ballet in three acts and seven scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by E. Rappoport and Marius Petipa. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 12/24 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1863 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as the Mountain Spirit) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Beshir).

See also

References

  1. "Marius Petipa (Choreography)". OperaAndBallet.com. July 14, 1910. Retrieved May 24, 2016.
The ballets and revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia
1847–59
1860–79
1880–99
1900–03
  • Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900)
  • The Seasons (1900)
  • Harlequinade (1900)
  • The Heart of the Marquis (1902)
  • The Magic Mirror (1903)
  • The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)
an asterisk * indicates a revival.


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