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The Fountain of Bakhchisarai
The Fountain of Bakhchisarai is a choreographic poem set to the music of Boris Asafiev. Based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, the ballet was premiered at the Kirov Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Leningrad in September 1934. The part of Maria was played by Galina Ulanova. The Fountain of Bakhchisarai was then mounted at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1936.
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