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Oumansky and Goudin.\n\n<i>Thamar</i> is credited as a choreographic drama in one act by M. L. Bakst, music by M. Balakirev, scenes and dances by M. Michel Fokine, scenery and costumes designed by M. L. Bakst, scenery executed by M. Charbey and Soudejkine, costumes executed by Mlle. Muelle. The cast is listed as Thamar, Reine de Georgie, Mme Tamara Karsavina; Le Prince, M. Adolf Bolm; Amies de Thamar - Mmes Nijinska, Piltz, Tchernyshova, Wasilewska, Konietska, Kopytsinska, Klementovitch, Baranovitch I, Baranovitch II, Maicherska, Staszko, Tcherepanova; the Zerghins Mme Kremnev, Bourman, Semenov, Kotchetovsky, Froman, Federov, Romanov, Rachmanov, Gavrilov, Zoboiko, Sergueiev, Kobelev;  Servantes -  Mmes. Kowalewska, Dobroloubova, Guliuk, Koultchytzka, Hohlova, Ezerska, Julitzka, Dombrovska, and the Serviteurs de Thamar -  Mm. Warzinski, Zailik, Statkevitch, Kegler, Kostecki, Goudin, Oumansky, Zielinski. The conductors were M. Tcherepnin and Mr. Thomas Beecham; the Stage Director was M. 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