A Fairy Tale (ballet)

A Fairy Tale or A Magic Tale, a ballet fantastique, was a ballet in one act choreographed by Marius Petipa to music by Richter.
The ballet was first presented as an examination piece by students of the Imperial Ballet School on April 4/16, 1891, in the theatre of the Imperial Ballet School, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Anna Pavlova participated in this ballet when she was ten years old during her first year as a student at the Imperial Ballet School. It was the first ballet she ever danced in at the Mariinsky Theatre.