Medora, a young Greek girl, is sold to Pasha by a slave dealer. The pirate Conrad seizes Medora and declares his love for her. But Conrad's jealous right-hand-man sends Medora back to the slave dealer, who again sells her to Pasha...

A swashbuckling romantic tale of the rescue of a beautiful slave from her tyrannical master by a handsome pirate with some of ballet's most famous individual passages; notably the Le Corsaire Pas de Deux, which is among classical ballet’s most iconic and performed excerpts. Le Corsaire (The Pirate) is a ballet in three acts. First presented by the Ballet of the Académie Royale de Musique, Paris, France on 23 January 1856.

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