Le Carnaval

Le Carnaval , entitled Carnival in English, is a ballet in a single act with an argument by Michel Fokine and a score by Robert Schumann. Léon Bakst created its scenery and costumes. It had its world premiere on 5 March 1910 at a ball in Pavlova Hall in St. Petersburg. It enjoyed its initial performance in a theatre on 20 May 1910 in Berlin at the Western theatre, but it was not brought to Paris until Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets russes produced it at the Opéra on 4 June 1910 in choreography by…