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The Three Musketeers is a historical novel by Alexandre ___MASK81___ . The City ___MASK21___ ___MASK8___ , often called ___MASK8___ City or simply ___MASK8___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population ___MASK21___ 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area ___MASK21___ just , ___MASK8___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip ___MASK21___ the state ___MASK21___ ___MASK8___ , the city is the center ___MASK21___ the ___MASK8___ metropolitan area , one ___MASK21___ the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK8___ City exerts a significant impact upon ___MASK12___ , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK8___ minute ". Home to the headquarters ___MASK21___ the United Nations , ___MASK8___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital ___MASK21___ the world . The Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company , based at the Bolshoi Theatre in ___MASK43___ , Russian Federation . Founded in 1776 , the Bolshoi is among the world ' s oldest ballet companies . It only achieved worldwide acclaim , however , in the early 20th century when ___MASK43___ became the capital of Soviet Russia . Along with the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint ___MASK9___ , the Bolshoi is recognised as one of the foremost ballet companies in the world . Dance is a performance art form consisting ___MASK21___ purposefully selected sequences ___MASK21___ human movement . This movement has aesthetic and symbolic value , and is acknowledged as dance by performers and observers within a particular culture . Dance can be categorized and described by its choreography , by its repertoire ___MASK21___ movements , or by its historical period or place ___MASK21___ origin . Harald ___MASK97___ Bernhardt Stevnsborg Lander ( 25 February 1905  14 September 1971 ) was a Danish dancer , choreographer and artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet . ___MASK51___ Giovanni ( K . 527 ; complete title : , literally " The Rake Punished , namely ___MASK51___ Giovanni " or " The Libertine Punished ") is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte . It is based on the legends of ___MASK51___ Juan , a fictional libertine and seducer . It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the National Theater ( of Bohemia ), now called the Estates Theatre , on 29 October 1787 . Da Ponte ' s libretto was billed as a " dramma giocoso ", a common designation of its ___MASK50___ that denotes a mixing of serious and comic action . Mozart entered the work into his catalogue as an " opera buffa ". Although sometimes classified as comic , it blends comedy , melodrama and supernatural elements . ___MASK51___ Juan ( Spanish ), ___MASK51___ Giovanni ( Italian ) is a legendary , fictional libertine . The first written version of the " ___MASK51___ Juan " legend was written by the Spanish dramatist Tirso de Molina (" nom de plume " of Gabriel Téllez ). His play , " El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra " (" The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest "), was set in the fourteenth century and published in Spain around 1630 . The name " ___MASK51___ Juan " is a common metaphor for a " womanizer ". A libertine is one devoid ___MASK21___ ___MASK48___ moral or sexual restraints , which are seen as unnecessary or undesirable , especially one who ignores or even spurns accepted morals and forms ___MASK21___ behaviour sanctified by the larger society . Libertinism is described as an extreme form ___MASK21___ hedonism . Libertines put value on physical pleasures , meaning those experienced through the senses . As a philosophy , libertinism gained new - found adherents in the 17th , 18th , and 19th centuries , particularly in France and Great Britain . Notable among these were John Wilmot , 2nd Earl ___MASK21___ ___MASK16___ , and the Marquis de Sade . The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature ___MASK21___ the federal government ___MASK21___ the United States consisting ___MASK21___ two chambers : the Senate and the House ___MASK21___ Representatives . The Congress meets in the Capitol in Washington , D . C . Both senators and representatives are chosen through direct election , though vacancies in the Senate may be filled by a gubernatorial appointment . Members are usually affiliated to the Republican Party or to the Democratic Party , and only rarely to a third party or as independents . Congress has 535 voting members : 435 Representatives and 100 Senators . The House ___MASK21___ Representatives has six non - voting members in addition to its 435 voting members . These members can , however , sit on congressional committees and introduce legislation . These members represent Washington , D . C ., Puerto Rico , ___MASK91___ , Guam , the Northern Mariana Islands and the U . S . Virgin Islands . Ballet is a type ___MASK21___ performance dance that originated in the Italian Renaissance courts ___MASK21___ the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in ___MASK79___ and Russia . It has since become a widespread , highly technical form ___MASK21___ dance with its own vocabulary based on French terminology . It has been globally influential and has defined the foundational techniques used in many other dance genres . Becoming a ballet dancer requires years ___MASK21___ training . Ballet has been taught in various schools around the world , which have historically incorporated their own cultures to evolve the art . ___MASK77___ (, ); ) is the capital and most populated city of Denmark . It has a municipal population of 591 , 481 and a larger urban population of 1 , 280 , 371 . The ___MASK77___ metropolitan area has just over 2 million inhabitants . The city is situated on the eastern coast of the island of Zealand ; another small portion of the city is located on Amager , and is separated from Malmö , Sweden , by the strait of Øresund . The Øresund Bridge connects the two cities by rail and road . The Metropolitan Opera House ( colloquially The Met ) is an opera house located on ___MASK6___ at Lincoln Square in the ___MASK87___ ___MASK21___ Manhattan in ___MASK8___ City . Part ___MASK21___ Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts , the theater was designed by Wallace K . ___MASK39___ . It opened in 1966 , replacing the original 1883 Metropolitan Opera House at ___MASK6___ and 39th St . With a seating capacity ___MASK21___ approximately 3 , 800 , the house is the largest repertory opera house in the world . Home to the Metropolitan Opera Company , the facility also hosts the American Ballet Theatre in the summer months . Kirsten Simone ( born 1 July 1934 ) is a former Danish ballerina . She studied at the Royal Danish Ballet School with ___MASK36___ Volkova and joined the Royal Danish Ballet Company in 1952 . She became their first soloist in 1966 . She created roles in Flemming Flindt ' s The Three Musketeers ( 1966 ) , Elsa - Marianne von Rosen ' s ___MASK51___ Juan ( 1967 ) and Harald Lander ' s Fête polonaise ( 1970 ) . She was a guest artist with several companies including the American Ballet Theatre and London Festival Ballet . Since her retirement she has taught at the Royal Danish Ballet School . Simone stars as mentor to a young ballerina in the 1966 film Ballerina . She was awarded the Ingenio et Arti medal in 2001 . The David H . Koch Theater is a theater for ballet , modern and other forms ___MASK21___ dance , part ___MASK21___ the Lincoln ___MASK73___ for the Performing Arts located at the intersection ___MASK21___ Columbus Avenue and 63rd ___MASK80___ in ___MASK8___ City , United States . Originally named the ___MASK8___ State Theater , the venue has been home to the ___MASK8___ City Ballet since its opening in 1964 , the secondary venue for the American Ballet Theatre in the fall , and served as home to the ___MASK8___ City Opera from 1964 to 2011 . The theater occupies the south side ___MASK21___ the main plaza ___MASK21___ Lincoln ___MASK73___ , opposite David Geffen Hall . ___MASK23___ , officially the Kingdom of ___MASK23___ , is a sovereign state largely located on the ___MASK27___ Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with ___MASK83___ ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of Biscay ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Alexandre ___MASK81___ (, born ___MASK81___ Davy de la Pailleterie ; 24 July 1802  5 December 1870 ), also known as Alexandre ___MASK81___ , " père ", was a French writer . His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages , and he is one ___MASK21___ the ___MASK48___ widely read French authors . Many ___MASK21___ his historical novels ___MASK21___ high adventure were originally published as serials , including " The Count ___MASK21___ Monte Cristo ", " The Three Musketeers ", " Twenty Years After ", and "". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films . ___MASK81___ ' last novel , " The Knight ___MASK21___ Sainte - Hermine ," unfinished at his death , was completed by a scholar and published in 2005 , becoming a bestseller . It was published in English in 2008 as " The Last Cavalier ." ___MASK36___ Volkova (( 31 May 1905  May 5 , 1975 ) was an influential Russian ballet dancer and dance teacher . Flemming Flindt ( 30 June 1936  3 ___MASK10___ 2009 ) was a Danish choreographer born in ___MASK77___ . He studied at the Royal Danish Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet schools , joined the Royal Danish Ballet and was promoted to soloist in 1955 . He guested with the London Festival Ballet in 1955 , the Ballet Rambert in 1960 , the Royal Ballet 1963 and the Bolshoi Ballet in 1968 , becoming an " étoile " at the Paris Opera Ballet in 1961 . American Ballet Theatre ( ABT ) is a classical ballet company based in ___MASK8___ City . It has an annual eight - week season at the Metropolitan Opera House ( Lincoln Center ) in the spring and a shorter season at the David H . Koch Theater in the fall ; the company tours around the world the rest of the year . ABT was founded in 1939 by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant and is recognized as one of the world ' s leading classical ballet companies . ABT is also the parent company of the American Ballet Theatre Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School , and was recognized as " America ' s National Ballet Company " in 2006 by the United States Congress . ___MASK76___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK76___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth ___MASK21___ the Earth ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth ___MASK48___ populous , with over 140 million people at the end ___MASK21___ March 2016 . The European western part ___MASK21___ the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % ___MASK21___ the population live in European ___MASK76___ . ___MASK76___ ' s capital Moscow is one ___MASK21___ the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , ___MASK13___ and ___MASK40___ . The Royal Danish Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company , based at the Royal Danish Theatre in Kongens Nytorv , ___MASK77___ , Denmark . It is one of the oldest ballet companies in the world and originates from 1748 , when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded . It was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French and Italian styles of dance . The company was founded with the opening of the Royal Danish Theatre , which has served as its home since that time . The Royal Danish Ballet school was founded in 1771 under the French ballet teacher Pierre Laurent ( 1730 - 1807 ), Then Vincenzo Galeotti developed it and August Bournonville founded his methodology for the school . J is the tenth letter in the modern English alphabet and the ISO basic Latin alphabet . Its ___MASK33___ name in English is " jay " or , now uncommonly , " jy " . When used for the palatal approximant , it may be called " yod " ( or ) or " yot " ( or ). Lucia Chase ( 24 ___MASK10___ 1897 ; ___MASK90___ , Connecticut  9 January 1986 ; ___MASK8___ City , United States ) was an American dancer , actress , ballet director and also the co - founder of the American Ballet Theatre . Tirso de ___MASK3___ ( 24 March 1579  12 March 1648 ) was a Spanish Baroque dramatist , poet and Roman Catholic monk . He is primarily known for writing " The Trickster of Seville and the Stone Guest ", the play from which the popular character of ___MASK51___ Juan originates . His work is also of particular significance due to the abundance of female protagonists , as well as the exploration of sexual issues . Classical ballet is any ___MASK21___ the traditional , formal styles ___MASK21___ ballet that exclusively employ classical ballet technique . It is known for its aesthetics and rigorous technique ( such as pointe work , turnout ___MASK21___ the legs , and high extensions ), its flowing , precise movements , and its ethereal qualities .