Karsavina was notable for playing the role of Medora in this work, who performs in this work's Le jardin animé, and a Riccardo Drigo nocturne entitled The Dream of Spring provides the music for this work's oft excerpted Pas de deux.
In Theatre Street, Tamara Karsavina claimed that one dance in this work is intended to say "Alas, I have no moustache, but my heart is as valiant as a man's own." Pyotry Gusev's 1955 version of this work discarded most of the original score and used airs from Si j'étais roi and La Jolie fille du gand and became the standard of the Kirov ballet. The American Ballet Theatre often keeps a scene taking place in a bazaar entitled Finesse d'amour and one section of this ballet opens with the firing of two prop muskets and is called the Danse des forbans. Vakhtang Chabukiani pioneered the slave role of Ali in one scene in this work, which often uses the Variation de la Reine des Dryades from its choreographer's Don Quixote. This work sees Pasha Seid buy Gulnara and sees Bibanto strike a deal with Lankadem. Karsavina was notable for playing the role of Medora in this work, who performs in this work's Le jardin animé, and a Riccardo Drigo nocturne entitled The Dream of Spring provides the music for this work's oft excerpted Pas de deux. Originally choreographed by Joseph Mazilier, most versions of this work are based on the choreography of Marius Petipa. For 10 points, name this ballet based on a Lord Byron work about some ? pirates, with music by Adolpe Adam. 
In Theatre Street, Tamara Karsavina claimed that one dance in this work is intended to say "Alas, I have no moustache, but my heart is as valiant as a man's own."
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