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Fonteyn and Nureyev sparkle in Le Corsaire at Covent Garden: archive, 5 Nov 1962 by Our Ballet Critic

5 November 1962: Nureyev, it seems, is good for Fonteyn who evidently relishes his exotic, far from submissive partnershipThe choreography of the pas de deux from Le Corsaire, which Fonteyn and Nureyev introduced to Covent Garden on Saturday, is credited implausibly to Petipa. Petipa may well have had a hand in the Maryinsky revivals of this ancient ballet by Mazilier but he can have had little to do with the tremend…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13PM on June 17, 2016

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