And I don’t mean figuratively, either. Apparently, in 1875, Tchaikovsky (aged 35) and Saint-Saëns (aged 40) who had a ‘natural talent’ for ballet as well as liking it, got up on the stage of the Moscow Conservatoire, accompanied by Nikolai Rubenstein at the piano, and performed a pas de deux of Galatea and Pygmalion. Well I never.
From the 2006 edition of Queering the Pitch
