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).
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).