2 performances, matinee & evening, 20 July, Prog 3 of the ve teran Bolshoi stars troupe under Andris Liepa's direction. CLEOPATRA - I DA RUBINSTEIN An original idea by Andris Liepa this exquisite production r ecounts the story of the creation of Fokine’s ballet Cleopatra, for Ida Ru binstein in 1909. Choreographer Patrick de Bana makes some great choreograp hy in this new ballet, and has chosen music by composers including Glazuno v, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel and the wonderful musicof new composer Omar Faruk Tekbilek. The world premiere was staged on 28thJune 2012 at Paris Champs-Elysees Theatre to press reviews of ‘beautiful’ ‘interesting’ ‘wonderful’ ‘great work in the choreography’ ‘a real study ofEgyptian style’. CHOPINIANA In 1909 Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, and Vaslav Nijinsky conquered Paris in this Romantic one-act ballet then en titled Les Sylphides. Consisting of four scenes to the music of a polonaise , nocturne, mazurka and tarantella by Glazunov, the ballet has no plot,but conveys the mood of reverie and melancholy between dream and reality o f a young poet in the world of the Sylphides. POLOVETSIAN DANCES The Po lovetsian Dances, a ballet excerpt from Alexander Borodin’s opera Prince I gor, was one of the highlights of the first Ballets Russes Paris season ma king its 1909 premiere at Theatre du Chatelet. A one-act ballet choreograph ed by Michel Fokine, slave-girls and warriors perform the celebratory danc es of Khan Konchak’s nomadic tribe. Booking: http://www.eno.org/see-what s-on/productions/production-page.php?&itemid=2360