La Péri (Dukas)
1912 ballet by Paul Dukas / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about Dukas' 1912 ballet music. For Burgmüller's 1843 ballet music of the same title, see La Péri (Burgmüller).
La Péri (English: The Peri)[lower-alpha 1] is a 1912 ballet in one act by French composer Paul Dukas, originally choreographed by Ivan Clustine and first performed in Paris, about Iskender (the name of Alexander the Great in Persian) searching for immortality and his encounter with a mythological Peri. It was premiered on April 22, 1912.