Ballet "Bayadere": content, interesting facts, video, history
L. Minkus ballet "La Bayadere" Two works at once became the literary basis of the ballet's libretto: the ancient Indian poet Kalidasa’s drama called Shakuntala and the ballad I.V. Goethe's "God and the Bayadere." On the basis of these immortal works, choreographer of the Russian imperial troupe Marius Petipa and playwright S.