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  La Spectre de la Rose (choreographic tableux) Article. Music by Carl Maria von Weber, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz; libretto by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, after a poem by Théophile Gautier; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 19 April 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. This ballet featured only two dancers and Fokine described the intimate stage setting as “a tiny room, the two walls of which meet...

  • Contributor: Fokine, Michel - Berlioz, Hector - Bakst, Léon - Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis - Weber, Carl Maria Von
  • Date: 1911-04-19
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  Narcisse (ballet in 1 act) Music by Nikolai Tcherepnin; libretto by Léon Bakst; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 26 April 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Tcherepnin, Nikolai - Fokine, Michel - Bakst, Léon
  • Date: 1911-04-26
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  Papillons (ballet in 1 act) Article. Music by Robert Schumann, orchestrated by Nikolai Tcherepnin; libretto by Michel Fokine; sets by Mstislav Dobujinsky; costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 16 April 1914, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. [This work was first performed at the Maryinsky Theater in 1912.]

  • Contributor: Tcherepnin, Nikolai - Fokine, Michel - Bakst, Léon - Schumann, Robert - Dobujinsky, Mstislav
  • Date: 1914-04-16
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  La Colombe (opera) Article. Music by Charles Gounod, with new recitatives by Francis Poulenc; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after Jean de La Fontaine; sets and costumes by Juan Gris; stage direction by Constantin Landau; premiere on 1 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. [The opera was first produced in Baden-Baden in 1860.]

  • Contributor: Barbier, Jules - Gris, Juan - Poulenc, Francis - Gounod, Charles - Carré, Michel - Landau, Constantin
  • Date: 1924
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  Le Médecin Malgré Lui (opera) Article. Music by Charles Gounod, with new recitatives by Erik Satie; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after Molière; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; stage direction by Alexandre Benois; premiere on 5 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. [The opera was first produced in 1858 in Paris.]

  • Contributor: Barbier, Jules - Nijinska, Bronislava - Gounod, Charles - Carré, Michel - Benois, Alexandre - Satie, Erik
  • Date: 1924-01-05
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  Les Tentations de la Bergère, ou l'Amour Vainqueur (ballet in 1 act) Article. Music by Michel de Montéclair, arranged and orchestrated by Henri Casadesus; sets, costumes, and curtain by Juan Gris; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 3 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. Unlike similar ballets, produced by Diaghilev that used commissioned scores, the composer for this ballet lived between 1667 and 1737.

  • Contributor: Casadesus, Henri - Gris, Juan - Nijinska, Bronislava - Montéclair, Michel De
  • Date: 1924-01-03
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  Les Biches (ballet in 1 act with a song) Article. Music by Francis Poulenc; sets, costumes, and curtain by Marie Laurencin; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 6 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Laurencin, Marie - Poulenc, Francis - Nijinska, Bronislava
  • Date: 1924-01-06
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  Cimarosiana (divertissement) Article. The final act of Le Astuzie Femminili, a two act opéra-ballet that premiered in May 1920, was extracted to create Cimarosiana. Music by Domenico Cimaroso, orchestrated with added vocal recitatives by Ottorino Respighi; sets, costumes, and curtain: José-María Sert; choreography by Léonide Massine, with an added pas de quatre by Bronislava Nijinska; premiered on 8 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Respighi, Ottorino - Massine, Léonide - Nijinska, Bronislava - Sert, José-María - Cimaroso, Domenico
  • Date: 1924-01-08
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  Philémon et Baucis (opera) Article. Music by Charles Gounod; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois; stage direction by Alexandre Benois; premiere on 10 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. [The opera was first produced in Paris in 1860.]

  • Contributor: Carré, Michel - Benois, Alexandre - Barbier, Jules - Gounod, Charles
  • Date: 1924-01-10
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  Une Education Manquée (opera) Article. Music by Emmanuel Chabrier, with new recitatives by Darius Milhaud; libretto by E. Leterrier and A. Vanloo; sets and costumes by Juan Gris; stage direction by Alexandre Benois; premiere on 17 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. [The opera was first produced in Paris in 1879.]

  • Contributor: Vanloo, A. - Leterrier, E. - Chabrier, Emmanuel - Milhaud, Darius - Gris, Juan - Benois, Alexandre
  • Date: 1924-01-17
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  Les Fâcheux (ballet in 1 act) Article. Music by George Auric; libretto by Boris Kochno, after Molière; sets, costumes, and curtain by Georges Braque; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 19 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Braque, Georges - Auric, George - Nijinska, Bronislava - Kochno, Boris
  • Date: 1924-01-19
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  La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bare Mountain) (choreographic tableux) Article. Music by Modest Mussorgsky; sets and costumes by Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 6 April 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Goncharova, Natalia - Nijinska, Bronislava - Mussorgsky, Modest
  • Date: 1924-04-06
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  Zéphire et Flore (ballet in 3 scenes) Article. Music by Vladimir Dukelsky [Vernon Duke]; libretto by Boris Kochno; sets and costumes by Georges Braque; choreography by Léonide Massine; premiere on 28 April 1925, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Dukelsky, Vladimir [Vernon Duke] - Kochno, Boris - Massine, Léonide - Braque, Georges
  • Date: 1925-04-28
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  Romeo and Juliet (ballet in 2 parts) Article. Music by Constant Lambert; sets and costumes by Max Ernst and Joan Miró; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska, with an entr’acte by George Balanchine; premiere on 4 May 1926, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo

  • Contributor: Ernst, Max - Miró, Joan - Lambert, Constant - Nijinska, Bronislava - Balanchine, George
  • Date: 1926-05-04
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  La Chatte (ballet in 1 act) Article. Music by Henri Sauger; libretto by Sobeka [Boris Kochno], after an Aesop fable; sets and costumes by Naum Gabo and Anton Pevsner; choreography by George Balanchine; premiere on 30 April 1927, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Sauger, Henri - Balanchine, George - Gabo, Naum - Sobeka [Kochno, Boris] - Pevsner, Anton
  • Date: 1927-04-30
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  Le Bal (ballet in 2 tableaux) Article. Music by Vittorio Rieti; libretto by Boris Kochno, after Count Vladimir Sologub; sets and costumes by Giorgio de’Chirico; choreography by George Balanchine; premiere on 7 May 1929, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

  • Contributor: Balanchine, George - Rieti, Vittorio - Kochno, Boris
  • Date: 1929-05-07