Style
Though a ballet will require place within Turkey, many of the dances have a Russian feel to the two.

Sergeyev's choreography is focused staggeringly on the stars of the indicate, world health organization come asked to perform amazing techincal deed. Telling jumps, everlasting twirls & numbers of pas de deux are interspersed in the story.

Characters
Conrad -- Skipper of the pirate ship. Ali -- Helpful slave of Conrad's. Birbanto -- First mate and good friend to Conrad. Lankendem -- Marketer of girls at the Turkish bazaar. Medora -- Beautiful break one's back girl, object of Conrad's want. Gulnare -- Friend of Medora's. Seyd -- The Turkish pasha.

Synopsis

Prologue
the curtain opens for the audience to view a pirate sailing towards Turkey. On the ship, pirates may be seen, foremostly Conrad, Birbanto & Ali, Conrad's slave.

Act I: The Bazaar
the pirates reach a bazaar in Turkey, where Lankendem is selling girls, virtually all notably a beautiful Medora & Gulnare. Conrad lessens crazy at a sight of Medora, world health organization successively favors him. Nevertheless, Lankendem has plans to sell Medora & Gulnare to Seyd, world health organizatiin has upright appeared on stage. Seyd buys two girls & is off. Jealous Conrad orders an attack on a village & the snatch of Lankendem. His slave is instructed to steal Medora back himself.

Act II: The Grotto
At Conrad's forward den, a pirates rendezvous. Birbanoto & foot soldier report a profits of their raid, giving using spoils, including Lankendem & numbers of break one's back girls, whom Medora entreats Conrad to release. Birbanto stages the mutiny, which is quickly dissolved per pirate's leader. Birbanto, nonetheless, is non beaten eventually. Conrad's number 1 mate coerces captive Lankendem to trick Medorthe into yielding her lover a narcotized flower. Whenever Conrad smells it, he lessens into the deep slumber. Birbanto, watching secretivly behind a bush, rallies the pirates & it attempt to slip away by having Medora. In the struggle, Medora cuts Birbanto's arm by owning his knife & Lankendem wisks her away. A mutiners come astir to dispatch their previous leader while Ali is restored & awakens his master. Asked just about his lover's dissapearence, Birbanto lies.

Act III
Scene i: The Pasha's Palace
At pacha's palace, Seyd is existence entertained by Gulnare while Medora is restored & these are decreed that Medora may turn into a pacha's first married woman.

Scene ii: Jardin Animée
That nighttime, when Seyd sleeps, beautiful girls, including Gulnare & Medorthe, dance inside a garden inside his dreams.

Scene iii: The Pasha's Palace
Conrad et al. arrive at a palace within disguise, waking a govenor. Another time in, a maurauders attack a pacha & his guards. When the residents flee, Medora list Birbanto a traitor & Conrad kills him. Conrad, Ali, Medora & Gulnare a lot escape to the pirate.

Scene iv: The Storm
Under way, a crusaders come stricken by a terrible storm & the ship is abandoned.

Epilogue
the lovers, Conrad & Medora lie together upon a big rock & their love lives.

List of productions
breadth=90% |- bgcolor="#efefef ! width="14%" | Premiere ! width="18%" | Ballet company ! width="10%" | Choreographer ! width="22%" | Original leads ! width="24%" | Notes ! width="4%" | Source |- valign=top |January 23, 1856 |Paris Opera Ballet |Mazilier |Carolina Galetti Rosati; Domenico Segarelli |World premiere ||- |1899 |Mariinsky Ballet |Petipa |Unknown |None ||- |July 3, 1989 |Leningrad-Kirov Ballet |Unknown |Altynai Asylmuratova; Yevgeni Neff |US premiere ||- |March 27, 1997 |Boston Ballet |Unknown |Natasha Akhmarova; Robert Wallace |Performed as The Pirate (Le Corsaire); First non-Russian production ||- |June 19, 1998 |ABT |Sergeyev; Petipa |Marcelo Gomes; Paloma Herrera |None ||}

See Also
Giselle Adolphe Adam Ballet Classical ballet