Les Sylphides

Les Sylphides had its world premiere at the Mariinsky theatre in St. Petersburg on 6 April 1906, and it was produced subsequently in Paris at the Châtelet theatre on 30 May 1909 by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets russes . It was taken to the Opéra next by this same company, which offered it as “a romantic revery” for its first representation at this theatre on 19 June 1909. Anna Pavlova , Tamara Karsavina , and Vaslav Nijinsky had starred in it at the Châtelet, but only Mlles Pavlova and Karsavina…