When was the composer of the ballet Raymonda, director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory  ?
Raymonda Variations Raymonda Variations is a ballet made by New York City Ballet co-founder and ballet master George Balanchine to excerpts from the first act of Glazunov's "Raymonda" (1895–97). The premiere took place on 7 December 1961 at City Center of Music and Drama, New York, under the title "Valses et Variations". Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova had mounted a full-length production of "Raymonda" for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in 1946.
Alexander Lazarev Alexander Nikolayevich Lazarev (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Ла́зарев ; born 5 July 1945, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian conductor. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory with Leo Ginsbourg. In 1971, he was the first prize winner in a national conducting competition in the USSR. In 1972, he won a first prize and gold medal in the Karajan conducting competition in Berlin.