Ballets built on fairy tales, folk legends and supernatural stories, such as an enchanted swan, a toy that comes to life, spirits of the dead and a firebird. A work belongs here when the cited article names a fairy tale, legend or supernatural story as its subject. It excludes ballets with no story, and ballets drawn from novels and plays, which sit in the literary group. The group includes three ballets set to music by Tchaikovsky, a Romantic ballet about spirits of betrayed women, a Ballets Russes work on a Russian fairy tale and a short ballet about a girl dreaming of a rose. These ballets are among the most often performed in the world and shaped the classical repertory.
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Swan Lake (Wikipedia)
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Swan Lake (Russian: Лебединое озеро) is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875-76.
The Nutcracker (Wikipedia)
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The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, romanized: Shchelkunchik, pronounced [ɕːɪlˈkunʲtɕɪk] ), Op. 71, is an 1892 two-act classical ballet (conceived as a ballet-féerie; Russian: балет-феерия, romanized: balet-feyeriya) by Pyotr
Giselle (Wikipedia)
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Giselle ( jiz-EL, French: [ʒizɛl] ), originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis (French: [ʒizɛl u le vili]; Giselle, or The Wilis), is a romantic ballet (ballet-pantomime) in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam.
The Firebird - Wikipedia
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The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) - Wikipedia
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The Sleeping Beauty (Russian: Спящая красавица, romanized: Spyashchaya krasavitsa ) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.
Le Spectre de la Rose (Wikipedia)
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Le Spectre de la rose (The Spirit of the Rose) is a short ballet about a young girl who dreams of dancing with the spirit of a souvenir rose from her first ball.
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