#TBT: That One Time Paris Opéra Ballet's Director Got Into an Actual Duel Over a Ballet

On March 29, 1958, a question of rights to a particular ballet led to an illegal duel between a choreographer and an impresario. When then–Paris Opéra Ballet director Serge Lifar demanded that the International Ballet withdraw his Noir et Blanc from its program, the company’s impresario, Jorge de Cuevas (better known as the Marquis de […]