Music from five ballets: Ondine ; Esmeralda ; Pas de quatre ; Catarina, ou La fille du bandit ; Theolinda, ou Le lutin de la vallee

Cesare Pugni (1802-70) made his debut as a composer at La Scala in 1826 with the opera Elerz e Zulmida.

In the 1840s he worked closely with the choreography Jules Perrot (1810-92) in Paris and in London, creating some of the most renowned ballets of the 19th century, a number of which still find themselves in some modern repertories.