 The Blue Dahlia (ballet)

The Blue Dahlia () is a fantastic ballet in two acts, with libretto and choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Cesare Pugni, first presented by the Imperial Ballet on at the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia, with Mariia Surovshchikova-Petipa (as the Blue Dahlia) and Timofei Stukolkin (as Beausoleil).Marius Petipa renewed the first act of this ballet in 1875 for a debut of his daughter, Marie Petipa.