Word: minkus
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Boston Ballet took on years of history and tradition with the recent opening of the exotic La Bayadere, a ballet known for the opulence of its costumes and sets as well as the extreme challenges it presents to an ensemble as a whole. Set to the music of Ludwig Minkus, the 123-year-old ballet epic premiered in Boston for the first time last week in the ornate Wang Theater. With choreography by artistic director Anna-Marie Holmes after Marius Petipa's original, this was an ambitious enterprise in innovation and the preservation of tradition...