Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg: Giselle Paquita Le Corsaire La Bayadère Raymonda

by Smith

Five Ballets from Paris and St. Petersburg offers fascinating new looks at five classic story ballets: Giselle (1841), Paquita (1846), Le Corsaire (1856), La Bayad re (1877), and Raymonda (1898), drawing on a treasure trove of manuscripts that offer explicit written information about how many nineteenth-century ballets were performed in their earliest incarnations. Bursting with details forgotten for more than a century, these manuscripts bring the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190944501
• ISBN13: 9780190944506
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 856 Pages