Ballet

The Talisman

The Talisman is a ballet to music by Riccardo Drigo. Le Talisman is a ballet in 4 Acts and 7 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Riccardo Drigo.

The Talisman
Image: Unknown photographer of the photography department of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Choreography
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Music
Riccardo Drigo
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About the work

Le Talisman is a ballet in 4 Acts and 7 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Riccardo Drigo. Libretto by Konstantin Augustovich Tarnovsky and Marius Petipa. It was premièred on 6 February [O.S. 25 January] 1889 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia This ballet gave rise to the so-called Talisman Pas de Deux, which is today danced by many ballet companies.

From the Wikipedia article “The Talisman (ballet)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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