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  • Dom Juan

    Molière’s comedy Dom Juan ou le festin de pierre was the first and most famous collaboration between Alexander Golovin and Vsyevolod Meyerhold for the Imperial Theatres. The director and designer rec...

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  • Le Pavillon d’Armide

    In 1903, Alexander Benois conceived the idea for a romantic ballet-pantomime based on Théophile Gautier’s novella Omphale. At the start of the 1900s, he and the other members of the World of Art rega...

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  • La Légende de Joseph

    Mikhail Fokine ’s mimodrama-ballet La Légende de Joseph opened Sergei Diaghilev’s sixth Saison Russe in Paris in 1914. The Austrian composer Richard Strauss composed the music at the request of Diagh...

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  • Sylvia

    Léon Bakst’s first theatrical commission was the sets and costumes for a production of Clément Léo Délibes’s ballet Sylvia, designed in collaboration with Yevgeny Lanceray, Konstantin Korovin and Val...

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  • Islamey

    After listening to Mily Balakirev ’s piano fantasy Islamey (1869), orchestrated by Sergei Lyapunov, Mikhail Fokine was inspired to create a ballet based on the motifs of the Arabian Nights. The balle...

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