Ballet

La source

La source is a ballet choreographed by Arthur Saint-Léon to music by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus, first performed in 1866. La source (The Spring) is a ballet in three acts/four scenes with a score composed by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus…

La source
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Choreography
Arthur Saint-Léon
Music
Léo Delibes, Ludwig Minkus
Premiere
1866
First performed at
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About the work

La source (The Spring) is a ballet in three acts/four scenes with a score composed by Léo Delibes and Ludwig Minkus (Minkus: Act I & Act III-Scene 2/Delibes: Act II & Act III-Scene 1) which was premiered in Paris in 1866 with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon. In 1878 in Vienna it was called Naïla, die Quellenfee (Naïla, the Waternymph).

From the Wikipedia article “La source (Saint-Léon)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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