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Adolphe Adam and Leo Delibes' ballet staged by Marius Petipa edited by Alexei Ratmansky and Yury Burlaka. Designer - Boris Kaminsky. Costume designer - Elena Zaitseva. Music director - Pavel Klinichev. Lighting designer - Damir Ismagilov. Use is made in the production of music by Leo Delibes, Cesare Pugni, Pyotr von Oldenburg, Riccardo Drigo, Albert Zabel, Julius Gerber. Score restored by Alexander Troitsky. The original score by Adolphe Adam/Leo Delibes for Le Corsaire has been made available by L'Opera national de Paris from the archives of La Bibliotheque nationale de France. The choreographic notation has been made available by the Harvard University Theatre Collection. Evgeny Ponomaryov's costume sketches (1899) used in the production have been made available by the St. Petersburg State Theatre Library. This is real "grand ballet" where there is enough dance for virtually the whole company at once, while the prima-ballerina proves her right to this title almost without a break. And although this Le Corsaire is far removed from its literary source (Byron's poem of the same name, dear reader), its libretto is quite capable of satisfying society’s love of the pirate-romantic genre.
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