From My Old YT Channel (‘A D Films’) - Alicia Alonso in ’Robert Le Diable’

’Robert Le Diable’ (’Robert The Devil’ 1830) was the first of the Romantic era ballets. It formed part of the third act of Giacomo Meyerbeer’s opera of the same name. Apart from anything else, the ballet is historically important as it was in this ballet that for the first time a ballerina - Marie Taglioni, who created the role of Helena, the Abbess - arose onto point. The reconstruction and choreography for the performance here for Alicia Alonso and Jorge Esquivel are by Alberto Mendez. This was filmed a