Premiere: April 19, 1911 by the Ballet Russe. Music: Carl-Maria von Weber. Choreography: Fokine.

Spectre will be performed by Mathew Powell & Leah Gallas.

The ballet begins as a young girl arrives in her bedroom holding a single rose and is drawn into the beauty and aroma of the rose as she drifts into sleep. The Spirit of the rose then weaves in and out of her dreamy fantasy as a beautiful rose-like male. The reality and dream blur as she begins to move with the ethereal rose creature in a dance that is lush in its innocent eroticism. The girl returns to her chair resumed in slumber warmed and fulfilled by her fantasy. The Spectre bids adieu and then makes the legendary leap through the window leaving the girl amidst Le Spectre de la Rose.