Nightingale (ballet)

Nightingale is a ballet created in 1939 by Aleksey Yermolayev and Fedor Lopukhov to music by Mikhail Kroshner.The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, 2010, p. 491. 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.Writings on Ballet and Music, 2003, p. 192.

References Notes

Sources Craine, Debra and Mackrell, Judith (2010). The Oxford Dictionary of Dance. Oxford University Press. Lopukhov, Fedor (2003). Writings on Ballet and Music. University of Wisconsin Press.