Les Sylphides
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Les Sylphides is a short, non-narrative ballet blanc to piano music by Frédéric Chopin, selected and orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov.
Anna Pavlova in Les Sylphides, 1909
Scene from a performance in Baku, 2014
1909 set design by Alexandre Benois
Alexandre Benois
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Alexandre Nikolayevich Benois was a Russian artist, art critic, historian, preservationist and founding member of Mir iskusstva, an art movement and magazine. As a designer for the Ballets Russes unde
Portrait by Léon Bakst, 1898
Baba Yaga, from the "Alphabet in Pictures", 1904
Anna Karlovna Benois by A.Benois (1913)
Set design for Le Pavillon d'Armide, Ballets Russes, 1909