Ondine, ou La naïade
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This article is about the ballet by Jules Perrot and Cesare Pugni. For the ballet by Hans Werner Henze and Frederick Ashton, see Ondine (ballet). For other uses, see Ondine (disambiguation).
Ondine, ou La naïade is a ballet in three acts and six scenes with choreography by Jules Perrot, music by Cesare Pugni, and a libretto inspired by the novel Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué. Pugni dedicated his score to Augusta, Duchess of Cambridge, a long-time balletomane and patron of the arts in London. Whilst the original London production used the title Ondine, ou La naïade, Perrot staged a revival of the ballet under the title, La naïade et le pêcheur, a title which was used for all subsequent productions of the ballet.
A performance of Perrot's La naïade et le pêcheur at Peterhof Palace. July, 1851