Cléopâtre

Cléopâtre was a ballet billed as a “mimodrame” in a single act based upon Aleksander Pushkin for which Mikhail Fokine created the choreography and established the stage groupings. The work was created at the Châtelet Theatre on 8 June 1909 during the first season of Serge Diaghilev ’s Ballets russes in Paris, and Léon Bakst provided its costumes and sets. Its music was composed by Anthony Arensky and Serge Taneiev (the prelude), Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (Cléopâtre’s entrance scene). Feodor…