Nightingale (ballet)

Nightingale is a ballet created in 1939 by Aleksey Yermolayev and Fedor Lopukhov to music by Mikhail Kroshner.^[1] The libretto by Yermolayev and Yuri Slonimsky is based on a story by Źmitrok Biadula. Nightingale is the first Belarusian ballet to be staged at the National Opera and Ballet of Belarus, on 5 November 1939.^[2]

References

Notes

1. The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, 2010, p. 491.
2. Writings on Ballet and Music, 2003, p. 192.

Sources

• Craine, Debra and Mackrell, Judith (2010). The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199563449
• Lopukhov, Fedor (2003). Writings on Ballet and Music. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0299182748