The Beauty of Lebanon or The Mountain Spirit


The Beauty of Lebanon, or The Mountain Spirit is a fantastic ballet in three acts and seven scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni. Libretto by E. Rappoport and Marius Petipa. The ballet was first presented by the Imperial Ballet on December 12/24, 1863 at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa and Timofei Stukolkin.