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La Boutique Fantasque

Music: Gioacchino Rossini, arranged by Orttorino Respighi.
Choreography: Leonide Massine.
Sets and costumes: André Derain.

Premiere: on June 5, 1919 by the Ballets Russes in London (at the Alhambra Theatre).

Dancers at the premiere: Enricho Cecchetti (the Shopkeeper), Leonide Massine and Lydia Lopokova (cancan dancers), Lydia Sokolova, Leon Woizikovsky.


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