 Camargo (ballet)

Camargo (or "La Camargo") is a "grand ballet" in three acts and nine scenes, with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Ludwig Minkus.The libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Marius Petipa is based on an incident in the life of the 18th-century dancer Marie Camargo, in which she and her sister Madeleine were abducted by the Comte de Melun in May 1728 and taken to his mansion.