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Image: Pierina Legnani in Raymonda, act I, 1898 - "Danse du voile"

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Description: Photograph of Pierina Legnani (1863-1923), Prima ballerina assoluta of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres. She is costumed for the "Danse du voile" called "Une fantaisie" from the first act of the original production of the choreographer Marius Petipa (1818-1910) & the composer Alexander Glazunov's (1865-1936) 1898 ballet "Raymonda".
Title: Pierina Legnani in Raymonda, act I, 1898 - "Danse du voile"
Credit: Scanned from the souvenir program for Sergei Vikharev's reconstruction of the original 1898 production of the Petipa/Glazunov ballet Raymonda. La Scala, Milan. 2011.
Author: Unknown photographer of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre. St. Petersburg, Russian Empire.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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