Le Lys
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Le Lys (The Lily), also known as Liliya, is a ballet in 3 acts/4 scenes, with choreography by Arthur Saint-Léon and music by Léon Minkus.
The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on November 2/14 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1869, at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Principal dancers at the première included Adèle Grantzow
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- For this ballet Minkus reused and adapted much of the music he had composed for Saint-Léon's 1866 La Source.
