Gabriela Komleva and Vitali Afanaskov - ‘La Esmeralda’

And then a bit later I read that it was a favourite of Russian Ballerina Absolute, Mathilde Kschessinska, for whom Marius Petipa revived the ballet in 1899. ‘La Esmeralda’ was choreographed by Jules Perrot to music by Cesare Pugni. It premiered in London at Majesty&Theatre on the 9th of March 1844, with the Carlotta Grisi as Esmeralda, Jules Perrot as Gringoire, Arthur Saint-Leon as Phoebus, Adelaide Frassi as Fleur de Lys, and Antoine Louis Coulon as Quasimodo. A pretty great cast! Gabriela Komleva has become a favourite for me over the past few years and she is seen here in 1982 in the title role of the ballet with Vitali Afanaskov as her Gringoire. As Mr Lopez has said in the channel "the majority of this choreography [here] is most certainly NOT by Marius Petipa. It is by Vaganova" Enjoy!