The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, Žar-ptica) is a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor.
The music was premiered as a ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris on 25 June 1910 conducted by Gabriel Pierné. It was the first of their productions with music s...
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The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, Žar-ptica) is a 1910 ballet by Igor Stravinsky and choreographed by Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor.
The music was premiered as a ballet by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in Paris on 25 June 1910 conducted by Gabriel Pierné. It was the first of their productions with music specially composed for them. Diaghilev famously approached the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov (1855-1914) to write the music (there is evidence to suggest that Nikolai Tcherepnin had previously started composing music for the ballet - music which became The Enchanted Kingdom - but that Tcherepnin for reasons unexplained withdrew from the project); however there is no evidence, despite the much-repeated story that Lyadov was slow to start composing the work, that he ever accepted the commission. Diaghilev eventually transferred the commission...
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