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
La Sylphide
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La Sylphide is a romantic ballet in two acts. There were two versions of the ballet; the original choreographed by Filippo Taglioni in 1832, and a second version choreographed by August Bournonville i
Les Sylphides
…that the entire female corps de ballet adopted soon after, was designed by Léon Bakst and inspired by lithographs of Marie Taglioni in the 1832 ballet La Sylphide. The London premiere, in the first season of the Diaghilev Ballets Russes, was at the Royal Opera House. In North America, an unauthorized version…
Marie Taglioni in La Sylphide
Emma Livry in the title role of the Taglioni/Schneitzhoeffer La Sylphide. Paris, 1862
August Bournonville in 1841.