World premiere: 12 June 1928,
Les Ballets
Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Theatre Sarah Bernhart,
Paris
Running time 33 minutes The story centres around
Apollo, the Greek god of music, who is visited by three muses: Terpsichore, muse
of dance and song; Polyhymnia, muse of mime; and Calliope, muse of poetry. The
ballet plainly takes Classical antiquity as its subject.
Apollo Musagete at Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_(ballet)
© Photo by Damir Yusupov/Bolshoi
Theatre.