Statistics for Famous Ballets

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Premiere	Composer	Choreographer	Hint	Ballet	% Correct
1892	Tchaikovsky	Marius Petipa / Lev Ivanov	Associated with the Christmas season	The Nutcracker	96%
1877	Tchaikovsky	Julius Reisinger	About Princess Odette and an evil sorcerer's curse	Swan Lake	95%
1938	Sergei Prokofiev	Ivo Váňa-Psota	Based on Shakespeare play	Romeo and Juliet	82%
1890	Tchaikovsky	Marius Petipa	Based on Perrault fairy tale	The Sleeping Beauty	73%
1869	Ludwig Minkus	Marius Petipa	Based on famous 1605 Spanish novel	Don Quixote	61%
1841	Adolphe Adam	Coralli / Perrot	Beautiful title character falls for the deceitful nobleman Albrecht	Giselle	61%
1945	Sergei Prokofiev	Rostislav Zakharov	Based on fairy tale	Cinderella	56%
1870	Léo Delibes	Arthur Saint-Léon	Subtitled "The Girl with the Enamel Eyes"	Coppelia	44%
1962	Felix Mendelssohn	George Balanchine	Based on Shakespeare play	A Midsummer's Night Dream	43%
1877	Ludwig Minkus	Marius Petipa	Title means "The Temple Dancer"	La {Bayadère}	36%
1836	Løvenskiold	August Bournonville	First ballet where dancing en pointe had an aesthetic rationale	La {Sylphide}	28%
1935	Tchaikovsky	George Balanchine	George Balanchine's first full-length ballet in America	{Serenade}	11%