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Alexandra Danilova and Léonide Massine in La Boutique fantasque Credit: Library of Congress, Music Division

Set in an enchanted toy shop in the 1860s, Léonide Massine’s La Boutique fantasque was one of his happiest and most effervescent works, danced to Ottorino Respighi’s arrangement of some of Gioachino Rossini’s piano pieces and charming designs by André Derain. It was staged by Sadler’s Wells Ballet in 1947 and The Royal Ballet Touring Company in 1968.

La Boutique fantasque and Le tricorne Set in an enchanted toy shop in the 1860s, Léonide Massine’s La Boutique fantasque was one of his happiest and most effervescent works, danced to Ottorino...

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