Following its compelling opening Masterworks Series concerts last month, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra embraces an ...

Igor Stravinsky was all of 28 years old in 1910 when he landed his first big hit, the ballet score to The Firebird, composed for the Ballets Russes, the influential dance company based in Paris.

With a St. Petersburg setting, dancing bear, puppet show and Stravinsky score, “Petrushka” is about as Russian as Russian ballet gets. But a brand-new adaptation, which The Portland Ballet will debut ...

Commentator Rob Kapilow uncovers the genius beneath the layers of Stravinsky's great ballet, Petrushka, and recalls how it inspired him to follow... 'Petrushka': Stravinsky's Opaque Reality One ...

Three ballet scores connected by the tragic figure of the great Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky make a superb programme. The main work is Stravinsky’s second ballet Petrushka (Petrouchka in French), ...

Stravinsky first achieved international fame with these works, which were commissioned for – and first performed by – Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes. Premiered during an extraordinary period ...

ASPEN Though Saturday night’s benefit performance of “Madama Butterfly” was the centerpiece of a busy weekend at the Aspen Music Festival, it was also a weekend for pianists.Ingrid Fliter wrestled ...

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Diablo Ballet Co-Artistic Director Nikolai Kabaniaev is a Russian- trained choreographer with a flair for theatricality and a helpless attraction to big ideas. In recent years, he's made an ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dive into the composer who changed music history and gave Mikhail Baryshnikov “my first heady sniff of the West.” In the past, we’ve chosen the five ...