Gaîté Parisienne
BALLET
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Gaîté Parisienne (literally, "Parisian Gaiety") is a 1938 ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine (1896-1979) to music by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880) arranged and orchestrated many decades later by Manuel Rosenthal (1904-2003) in collaboration with Jacques Brindejonc-Offenbach, the composer's nephew.Vicente García-Marques, Massine: A Biography (New York,: Knopf, 1995), pp.