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This article is about the ballet. For the painting which inspired Tolkien, see
Josef Madlener.
The Beauty of Lebanon, or The Mountain Spirit (French: La Belle du Liban, ou L'Esprit des montagnes; Russian: Ливанская красавица, или Горный дух) is a fantastic ballet in three acts and seven scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa[1] and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by E. Rappoport and Marius Petipa. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 12/24 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1863 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as the Mountain Spirit) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Beshir).
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1847–59 |
- Paquita (*1847, *1881)
- Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (*1848)
- Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid (1849)
- Giselle (*1850, *1884, *1899, *1903)
- The Star of Granada (1855)
- The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857)
- Le Corsaire (*1858, *1863, *1868, *1885, *1899)
- A Marriage During the Regency (1858)
- The Parisian Market (1859, *1861)
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1860–79 |
- The Blue Dahlia (1860, *1875)
- Terpsichore (1861)
- The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, *1885, *1898)
- The Beauty of Lebanon (1863)
- The Traveling Dancer (1864)
- Florida (1866)
- Titania (1866)
- Faust (*1867)
- The Benevolent Cupid (1868)
- The Slave (1868)
- Le Roi Candaule (1868, *1891, *1903)
- Don Quixote (1869, *1871)
- Trilby (1870)
- Catarina (*1870)
- The Two Stars (1871)
- Camargo (1872)
- Le Papillon (*1874)
- Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (*1874, *1892)
- The Bandits (1875)
- The Adventures of Peleus (1876, *1897)
- La Bayadère (1877, *1900)
- Roxana (1878)
- Ariadne (1878)
- The Daughter of the Snows (1879)
- Frizak the Barber (1879)
- Mlada (1879, *1896)
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1900–03 |
- Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900)
- The Seasons (1900)
- Harlequinade (1900)
- The Heart of the Marquis (1902)
- The Magic Mirror (1903)
- The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)
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