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The Beauty of Lebanon or The Mountain Spirit
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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