Shagreen ray Shagreen ray The shagreen ray or shagreen skate or fuller's ray ("Leucoraja fullonica") is a species of skate in the family Rajidae. This ray is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, from Murmansk, Russia through Norway, southern Iceland, the Faroe Islands, the Celtic Sea, the northern North Sea and Skagerrak, to northern Morocco, including (infrequently) the western Mediterranean Sea and the Madeira Islands. It is absent from the shallow waters off England and Wales. Shagreen is a form of roughened untanned leather, typically dyed green and commonly made of the skins of sharks and rays. The common name "fuller's ray"
The Shagreen Bone The Shagreen Bone The Shagreen Bone (, ) Op. 37-38 (1990) is a full-length ballet in three acts and an opera "entr’acte" in one act by Yuri Khanon, to a libretto by the composer based on Balzac’s 1831 novel "The Shagreen Skin". The ballet (Op.37) and the "entr’acte" (Op.38) were written in 1990 on commission from the Mikhaylovsky Theatre in Leningrad. The libretto is based entirely on the dialogues between the two characters – Pauline and Raphael. In 1992, an avant-garde film-opera "The Shagreen Bone" was shot at the Saint Petersburg Documentary Film Studio, with Yuri Khanon in the main