The Biblical story of Salome has long been an inspiration for various expressions. In 1907 French composer Florent Schmitt composed a ballet based on the story of Salome for Loie Fuller.
The ballet Scheherazade was choreographed by Michel Fokine using a symphonic suite by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The story is based of One Thousand and One Nights, also known as The Arabian Nights.
Scheherazade, Rimsky-Korsakov,
recorded 1942, SF Symphony Internet Archive
The Sleeping Beauty, a ballet envisioned by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Director of the Russian Imperial Theatres, is based the Brothers Grimm version of Charles Perrault's La Belle au bois. Characters from the Brothers Grimm fairy tales were incorporated into the original story. The ballet was first staged in 1890 with music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Maurice Petipa as the choreographer.
The Swan Lakeballet, composed byTchaikovsky (1875-76), was inspired by Russian folk tales and traditional symbolism of the swan as faithful to tell the story of the Princess Odette.
Odette is cursed to be a swan by day and human at night by the evil sorcerer Von Rothbart. The spell can only be broken by the power of eternal love between Odette and a young man, Prince Siegfried, who must remain faithful to her or she will take on the form of a swan forever. Von Rothbart disguishes his own daughter Odile as Odette to make Siegfriend unfaithful, thus keeping Odette imprisoned in the curse. The last scene is of the princess and prince ascending into heaven, having broke the curse through eternal love, and reversing the curse.
In 1832 ballet master Filippo Taglioni choreographed the original version of the romantic ballet Le Sylphide to show off the dancing abilities of his daughter Maria.
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