Gayane

Gayane (Gayaneh or Gayne (the e is pronounced); Armenian: Գայանե; is a four-act ballet with music by Aram Khachaturian. Originally composed in or before 1939, when it was first Produced (in Yerevan) as "Happiness". [The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Third Edition, by Michael Kennedy, 1980. Same information in The New Penguin Dictionary of Music by Paul Griffiths, 2004.] Revised in 1941–42 to a libretto by Konstantin Derzhavin and with choreography by Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova (Derzhavin's wife), the score was revised in 1952 and in 1957, with a new plot. The stage design was by Nathan Altman (scenery) and Tatyana Bruni (costumes).