3.58 avg rating — 69 ratings

"Trilby; or the Fairy of Argyll was the inspiration for Schneitzhöeffer's La Sylphide (1832)."

4.12 avg rating — 617 ratings

""De l'Allemagne" was one of the inspirations for Adam's Giselle (1841)."

3.65 avg rating — 175 ratings

""Fantômes" was the other inspiration for Adam's Giselle (1841)."

4.02 avg rating — 220,203 ratings

"This was the inspiration for Pugni's La Esmeralda (1844)."

3.67 avg rating — 527 ratings

"This was the inspiration for Le Corsaire (1856)."

3.91 avg rating — 307,275 ratings

"Episodes from this novel were the inspiration for Minkus's Don Quixote (1869)."

3.56 avg rating — 28,209 ratings

"This was the inspiration for Delibes's Coppélia (1870)."

0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings

""The Stealing of the Veil" is thought to be a possible inspiration for Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake (1877), along with the Swan Maiden myth."

3.69 avg rating — 196 ratings

"This, along with the Jacob Grimm version, served as the inspiration for Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty (1890)."

3.69 avg rating — 2,306 ratings

"The Tale of the Nutcracker, which was itself a retelling of the Nutcracker and the Mouse King, was the inspiration for Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker (1892)."

3.74 avg rating — 2,835,516 ratings

"This was the inspiration for Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet (1938)."

3.73 avg rating — 1,299 ratings

"Cinderella (1945) was inspired generally by the fairy tale of the same name."

3.94 avg rating — 581,225 ratings

"This was the inspiration for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1962)."