The Beauty of Lebanon or The Mountain Spirit

This article is about the ballet. For the painting which inspired Tolkien, see Josef Madlener.

The Beauty of Lebanon, or The Mountain Spirit (aka La Belle du Liban, ou L'Esprit des montagnes or Livanskaya Krasavitsa, ili Gorni Dukh; ru: Ливанская красавица, или Горный дух) is a fantastic ballet in 3 Acts and 7 Scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa, and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by E. Rappoport and Marius Petipa.

First presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 12/24 (Julian/Gregorian calendar dates), 1863 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. Principal Dancers - Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as the Mountain Spirit), Timofei Stukolkin (as Beshir)

The ballets and *revivals of Marius Petipa in Russia

1847–59	Paquita (1847) Le Diable amoureux (as "Satanella") (1848) Leda, the Swiss Milkmaid (1849) Giselle (1850, 1884, 1899, 1903) The Star of Granada (1855) The Rose, the Violet, and the Butterfly (1857) Le Corsaire (1858, 1863, 1868, 1885, 1899) A Marriage During the Regency (1858) The Parisian Market (1859, *1861)

1860–79	The Blue Dahlia (1860) Terpsichore (1861) The Pharaoh's Daughter (1862, 1885, 1898) The Beauty of Lebanon (1863) The Traveling Dancer (1864) Florida (1866) Titania (1866) Faust (1867) The Benevolent Cupid (1868) The Slave (1868) Le Roi Candaule (1868, 1891, 1903) Don Quixote (1869, 1871) Trilby* (1870) Catarina (1870) The Two Stars (1871) La Péri (1872) Camargo (1872) Le Papillon (1874) Ondine (as "The Naiad and the Fisherman") (1874) The Bandits (1875) The Adventures of Peleus (1876, 1897) A Midsummer Night's Dream* (1876) La Bayadère (1877, 1900) Roxana* (1878) Ariadne (1878) The Daughter of the Snows (1879) Frizak the Barber (1879) Mlada (1879, *1896)

1880–99	La Fille du Danube (1880) Zoraiya (1881) La Vivandière (as "Markitenka") (1881) Pâquerette (1882) The Night and the Day (1883) Pygmalion (1883) Coppélia (1884) Le Diable à Quatre (as "The Willful Wife") (1885) La Fille Mal Gardée (1885) The Magic Pills (1886) The King's Command (1886, 1887, 1900) La Esmeralda (1886) The Sacrifices to Cupid (1886) * Fiametta (1887) The Vestal (1888) The Talisman (1889) The Caprices of a Butterfly (1889, 1895) The Sleeping Beauty* (1890) Nénuphar (1890) Kalkabrino (1891) A Fairy Tale (1891) La Sylphide (1892) The Nutcracker (1892) Cinderella (1893) The Awakening of Flora (1894) Swan Lake (1895) The Little Humpbacked Horse (as "The Tsar Maiden") (1895) The Calvary Halt (1896) The Pearl (1896) Bluebeard (1896) Raymonda (1898)

1900–03	Les Ruses d'Amour or The Trial of Damis (1900) The Seasons (1900) Harlequinade (1900) The Heart of the Marquis (1902) The Magic Mirror (1903) The Romance of the Rosebud and the Butterfly (never presented)