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 ...

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 ...

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), ...

FORT WORTH — Well, that was fun: a performance of Stravinsky’s Petrushka with dancers. It happened Friday night at Bass Performance Hall, thanks to the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra and its music ...

Not just another recording of Petrushka. Vladimir Jurowski has chosen the original 1911 version of the ballet in its lavish orchestration, which the London Philharmonic Orchestra plays with glittering ...

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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 ...

On this 1984 recording, Stravinsky's celebrated ballets are rearranged for four-handed piano recital according to the composer's own transcriptions, originally used for rehearsals with Debussy. Under ...

Tom Service talks to pianist Leif Ove Andsnes about his multi-season project to play all Beethoven's Piano Concertos, and investigates new approaches to performance anxiety. Show more Tom Service ...