Le Corsaire is a ballet typically presented in three acts, with a libretto originally created by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges loosely based on the poem The Corsair by Lord Byron.
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14 Facts About Le Corsaire
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All modern productions of Le Corsaire are derived from the revivals staged by the Ballet Master Marius Petipa for the Imperial Ballet of St Petersburg throughout the mid to late 19th century.
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Le Corsaire makes fun of him by passing the handkerchief around the group of women.
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Le Corsaire begs Seyd Pasha for her freedom and complains of mistreatment by Isaac.
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Le Corsaire agrees on the condition that she freely submit to him.
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Le Corsaire was created primarily for the talents of the famous Italian ballerina Carolina Rosati, who was then the Opera's reigning Prima ballerina.
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Le Corsaire was first staged in Russia for the Imperial Ballet of St Petersburg by Jules Perrot, who served as Premier Maitre de Ballet of the St Petersburg Imperial Theatres from 1849 until 1858.
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Gorsky's revival of Le Corsaire remained in the repertory of the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre until 1927.
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On 21 June 2007 the Bolshoi Ballet presented a lavish revival of Le Corsaire staged by Yuri Burlaka and the company's director Alexei Ratmansky.
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Petipa's 1899 revival of Le Corsaire, which was given its final production in 1915, remained in the repertory of the Mariinsky Theatre until 1928.
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In 1936 another revival of Le Corsaire was given by the Kirov Ballet, with Natalia Dudinskaya as Medora, Mikhail Mikhailov as Conrad, and Vakhtang Chabukiani as the Slave.
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Kirov Ballet's staging of Gusev's version of Le Corsaire was given a new production in 1989 for the company's engagement at New York's Metropolitan Opera House.
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Full-length Le Corsaire was not performed again by the Kirov Ballet until 1977, when Oleg Vinogradov staged Pyotr Gusev's 1955 version.
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On 21 June 2007 the Bolshoi Ballet presented a lavish revival of Petipa's Le Corsaire staged by Alexei Ratmansky with new choreography, which included some reconstructed elements of Petipa's dances as staged for his 1899 revival reconstructed from the choreographic notation of the Sergeyev Collection by Yuri Burlaka.
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