impression of alexey komarov.s the latest ballet by the talented and prolific frenchman arthur saintleon, who he composed it to the music of leo delibo in 1870. the performance is so good that it has been staged this year for the parisian opera for a century and a half in different countries almost without changes, although at the mariinsky theater, where the ballet was shown to me for more than 30 years, choreographer alexander sergeev i changed this by putting not an evil, but a good story about the hoffmannian puppet master, from scary or creepy, we got rid of it, i went for delib, for music and... all the fragments in which there is mystery in the music, and or fragments that fascinate with some kind of mysticism, we reflected in the performance. a kindly old puppet master who demands complete submission from the puppets, but rather a young magician who, thanks to his talent, created the ideal girl, her only drawbacks are that she has no soul. she is mechanical, can a young man, for example, franz, who already