This ballet, The Firebird, was the work which marked Stravinsky's arrival on the world stage as a significant composer. It was premiered in 1910 in Paris (see stage works) and uses a lavish ...

Nicolas Altstaedt joins the Philharmonia for the UK premiere of Erkki-Sven Tüür's Second Cello Concerto, framed by two of Stravinsky's thrilling ballet scores. Show more Nicolas Altstaedt joins ...

crowned by his first international success The Firebird. This ground-breaking ballet score revealed Stravinsky’s innate theatrical sense, which subsequently manifested itself in all manner of ...

What, for example, would Stravinsky have been without Diaghilev? When Diaghilev was looking for a composer for his first newly-commissioned ballet, The Firebird, Stravinsky was little more than a ...

The Massapequa Philharmonic Orchestra recently hosted the first of four concerts in Nassau County on Sunday, March 23, ...

Dressed uniformly in black leotards, white tights and pointe shoes, the teenage ballerinas from the advanced class were ...

Touki Delphine, a performance troupe from the Netherlands, will perform “FIREBIRD” April 11-18 at the Center for the Arts at ...

By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim Near the end of the lullaby that gives way to the blazing finale of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite, the music slows and thins to a whisper. In the ballet ...

But these excerpts served as a sort of overture for the main event of the concert: Stravinsky’s beloved 1910 score, and Potts’ new rethinking of the ballet, “The Firebird.” Zhang and the ...