The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company based on the...
Composer-pianist Igor Stravinsky made a mark in Russia and France long before he came to America in 1939 at age 57. The story of Stravinsky's career and it's impact on 20th century music unfolds in...
Valery Gergiev conducts the Mariinsky Orchestra and Ballet in these Ballets Russes production of these Stravinsky ballets. Ekaterina Kondaurova, Ilya Kuznelsov, Marianna Pavlova, and Vladimir...
Paris 1913. At the Theatre Des Champs-ElysTes, Igor Stravinsky premieres "The Rite of Spring." Coco Chanel is mesmerized... But the revolutionary work is too modern: The enraged audience boos. A near...