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The Prince wears a tunic and turban and the Princess a tutu and pointe shoes. .\r\n\r\n<i>The Enchanted Princess</i> was the pas de deux for the Bluebird and Princess Florine from the ballet <i>The Sleeping Beauty</i>, with music by Piotr Tchaikovsky and choreography by Marius Petipa. This divertissement was performed by Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes under a number of guises, most famously by Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina as <i>L’oiseau de feu</i> or <i>L’oiseau d’or</i>. Leon Bakst designed new costumes for the ballet and a set showing a clearing in an exotic forest for the two performances given by the Ballets Russes in 1915, ahead of their first tour of north America. The design for the set was reproduced in black and white in the souvenir programme for the matinee at the Paris Opera on 29 December 1915 (Bakst's design is curiously dated 1911 and includes a fruit-bearing tree not shown in Allinson's drawing). <i>The Enchanted Princess</i> was first performed with this set and costumes in London at the London Coliseum on 16 September 1918  when it was danced by Lydia Lopokova (The Princess) and Stanislas Idzikowski (The Prince), both of whom became closely associated with the work.\r\n\nAllinson’s drawing suggests the format of a frontispiece for a booklet in Cyril Beaumont’s series <i>Impressions of the Russian Ballet</i> but this short ballet would not have sustained a full book in its own right.\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Illustration in black ink by Adrian Allinson. Two dancers, the Prince and Princess, in a clearing in a wood with the suggestion of a lake with mountains in the background. 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