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This collection presents music from three of the most important scores of the Golden Age of ballet in Paris from 1830-1870. The Romantic ballet had been inaugurated by Meyerbeer’s opera Robert le Dia …

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov (1865-1936), the Russian composer, is principally associated with his first ballet Raymonda, the apex of his cooperation with the great choreographer Marius Petipa, …

Cesare Pugni (1802-1870) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida, later becoming director of the Paganini Institute in Paris where he met the great choreogrpah …

Cesare Pugni (1802-70) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida. In the 1840s he worked closely with the choreographer Jules Perrot (1810-92) in Paris and in Lo …

This book is the pinnacle work of the famous Italian Renaissance politician and philosopher, Niccolo Machiavelli. Many of the viewpoints in this book have been controversial since its publication, an …

Young friends, have you ever experienced the embarrassment of being incoherent due to timidity? Do you often feel at a loss when speaking in public? Do you want to become a "eloquent teenager&qu …

Young friends, have you ever felt lost and disheartened due to some setbacks? Have you ever offended others unintentionally because you didn’t know how to interact with people? Have you ever worried …