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Collection Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev

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Chout (ballet in 6 scenes)
Music by Sergei Prokofiev; sets, costumes, and curtain by Mikhail Larionov; choreography by Tadeo Slavinsky and Mikhail Larionov; premiere on 17 May 1921, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, Paris.
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Cimarosiana (divertissement)
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.
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Cléopâtre (ballet in one act)
Music by Anton Arensky, with additional music by Aleksandr Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Tcherepnin; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 2 June 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. [Cléopâtre was based on Fokine’s 1908 Une Nuit d’Egypte, which featured three of the Ballets Russes most famous dancers: Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein, and Tamara Karsavina. The ballet was restaged in 1918 with sets by Robert Delaunay, costumes by Sonia Delaunay, and a new pas de deux by Léonide Massine.]
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Contes Russes (Children's Tales) (suite of dances)
Music by Anatoly Liadov; libretto by Léonide Massine; sets and curtain by Mikhail Larionov; costumes by Michel Larionov and Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Léonide Massine; premiere on 11 May 1917, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. [This ballet was performed in four parts. “Kikimora,” which was first produced as a separate work in 1916; “Bova Korolevitch and the Swan Princess”; “Baba Yaga”; and “Kolinda-Maleda.” Two more scenes were added for later London performances, where the work was known as Children’s Tales.]
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Cuadro Flamenco (suite of Spanish dance and music)
Traditional Andalusian music arranged by Manuel de Falla; sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso; premiere on 17 May 1921, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, Paris. [The choreography was traditional Spanish dance performed by non-Ballets Russes dancers.]
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