Paquita

Music by Ludwig Minkus

Choreography by Marius Petipa

NOTES

Paquita, a ballet in two acts and three scenes, tells the story of Paquita, rescued from a massacre as a child by gypsies, who, years later, while travelling and dancing with the gypsy band, returns to her home in the Spanish valley town of Sargossa, and is subsequently reunited with her family. These divertissements, from Act II, Scene II, are performed at a ball at the home of the Comte d’Hervilly (Paquita’s uncle).