Synopis
The uproar that greeted the premiere of The Rite of Spring, in May 1913, has gone into legend. Yet paradoxically this most revolutionary of musical masterpieces is deeply rooted in tradition. Peter Hill will explore and illustrate how ancient and modern come together in the dazzling creations of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the years before 1914 – in the sets and costumes of Benois and Bakst, the dancing and choreography of Fokine and Nijinsky, and in the glittering scores (for The Firebird, Petrushka and the Rite) composed by Diaghilev’s greatest discovery, Igor Stravinsky.