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La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker) is a ballet by New York City Ballet's founder and ballet master, George Balanchine, made to Vittorio Rieti's music using themes from the operas of Vincenzo Bellini including La Sonnambula, Norma, I Puritani, and I Capuletti ed i Montecchi (1830-35) and costumes by Karinska. The premiere took place with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo on February 27, 1946, at City Center of Music and Drama, New York; the City Ballet premiere was January 6, 1965.
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