La Légende de Joseph

La Légende de Joseph was a ballet in a single act with a score by Richard Strauss and a libretto by Harry Graf Kessler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Mikhail Fokine created the choreography, and the sets were designed by José-Marie Sert , while Léon Bakst was responsible for the costumes. It was created at the Opéra on 14 May 1914 by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets russes , and it was the first ballet in which Léonide Massine danced for this comany. The curtain rises on the ballet to disclose a great…