Le Corsaire - Act I Sc. 1 & 2 - Bolshoi 

Svetlana Lunkina as Medora, Yuri Klevtsov as Conrad, Andrey Merkuriev as Birbanto. “Le Corsaire”, libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Joseph Mazilier edited by Marius Petipa, based on the poem “The Corsair” (1814) by Lord Byron, choreography by Alexei Ratmansky, Yuri Burlaka and Marius Petipa, music by Adolphe Adam, costume design by Elena Zaitseva, Bolshoi Ballet, Moscow. Thumbnail image by Damir Yusupov.