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Baron Adolph de Meyer :: Vaslav Nijinsky as the Golden Slave in the Fokine ballet of Rimsky-Korsavov’s Schéhérazade, 1910 / src: Wikimedia Commons

Adolph Bolm and Tamara Karsavina in Schéhérazade, n.d. | src: Library of Congress
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Costume designs shown in the Tatler, 1917. Chu Chin Chow is a musical comedy written, produced and directed by Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, based (with minor embellishments) on the story of Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. The piece premièred at His Majesty’s Theatre in London on 3 August 1916 and ran for five years and a total of 2,238 performances.

Emil Otto Hoppé :: Tamara Karsavina as Zobeide in ‘Schéhérazade’, London, England, 1920 | src e.o.hoppe/photoshelter/ballets.russes


A. Bert :: Vaslav Nijinsky as the Golden Slave in the Fokine ballet of Rimsky-Korsavov’s Schéhérazade, 1910 / via Victoria and Albert Museum

Franz Xaver Setzer :: Maria Jeritza as Turandot, 1926.
The last of Puccini’s operas, Turandot is set in long-ago China. It is
the story of Prince Calàf, who falls in love with the forbidding
Princess Turandot. / src: Music Division, Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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