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Giselle (ballet in 2 acts)

Music by Adolphe Adam; libretto by Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois; choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot, Marius Petipa, with revisions by Michel Fokine; premiere on 18 June 1910, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.

Related digital items:

• Photograph of Alexandre Benois's costume for Albrecht in Giselle, which caused Nijinsky's dismissal from the Imperial Theatres, 1910, no photographer

The Gods Go A-Begging (ballet)

Music by George Frederic Handel, arranged by Thomas Beecham; libretto by Sobeka [Boris Kochno]; sets by Léon Bakst, from the production of Daphnis and Chloë, produced in 1912; costumes by Juan Gris, from the production of Les Tentations de la Bergère, produced in 1924; choreography by George Balanchine; premiere on 16 July, 1928, His Majesty’s Theatre, London.

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