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Danses Russes (suite of dances)

Music by Frédéric Chopin, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, and Aleksandr Borodin; premiere on 19 March 1923, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Monte Carlo. [This work was a suite of dances that included of “La Valse” (music by Chopin); “Trepak” (music by Tchaikovsky); “Polovtsian Dance” (music by Borodin); and “La Bacchanale.”].

NOTE: there are no documents in the collections pertaining to this.

Daphnis et Chloë (ballet in 1 act and 3 scenes)

Music by Maurice Ravel; libretto by Michel Fokine, after Longus, Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et de Chloé; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 8 June 1912, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.

Related digital items:

• Serge Diaghileff's Ballet Russe (Metropolitan Opera, 1916)
• 7me Saison des Ballets Russes
• Programme Officiel, Théatre de Monte-Carlo [program for 1923-1924 season]

Die Josephslegende (also called La Légende de Joseph and Legend of Joseph) (ballet in1 act)

Music by Richard Strauss; libretto by Count Harry Kessler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal; sets by José-María Sert; costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 14 May 1914, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.

NOTE: there are no documents in the collections pertaining to this.