page_title: Carnaval (ballet)
hierarchical_section_title: Carnaval (ballet)
caption_attribution_description: English: Photographic image of Russian dancer Michel/Mikhail Fokine (1880 – 1942), in costume for Carnaval. MS Thr 414.2 (43), Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard University
context_page_description: Carnaval is a ballet based on the music of Robert Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered in Pavlovsk on 5 March 1910.
  The leading dancers of the Imperial Ballet were engaged in the production: Tamara Karsavina, Leonid Leontiev, Vera Fokina, Ludmila Schollar, Bronislava Nijinska, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Vasily Kiselev, and Aleksandr Shiryaev.
  The ballet became world-famous due to its production by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, with new sets and costumes by Bakst, with Lydia Lopokova as Columbine and Vaslav Nijinsky as Harlequin.
context_section_description: Carnaval (Russian: Карнавал) is a ballet based on the music  of Robert Schumann's piano suite Carnaval, Op. 9, as orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Anatoly Lyadov and Alexander Tcherepnin. It was choreographed by Michel Fokine to his own libretto, with costumes designed by Léon Bakst, and premiered in Pavlovsk on 5 March (old style, 20 February) 1910.
  The leading dancers of the Imperial Ballet were engaged in the production: Tamara Karsavina (Columbine), Leonid Leontiev (Harlequin), Vera Fokina (Chiarina), Ludmila Schollar (Estrella), Bronislava Nijinska (Papillon), Vsevolod Meyerhold (Pierrot), Vasily Kiselev (Florestan), and Aleksandr Shiryaev (Eusebius).
  The ballet became world-famous due to its production by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Theater des Westens, Berlin, 20 May 1910), with new sets and costumes by Bakst, with Lydia Lopokova as Columbine and Vaslav Nijinsky as Harlequin.
caption: Michel Fokine in costume for Carnaval, circa 1910
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