Schedule for Polovtsian Dances. Schйhйrazade. Firebird. 2022

Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Composer: Alexander Borodin
Composer: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

Music: Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine

Polovtsian Dances
ballet in one act

Music: Alexander Borodin (ballet scene from the opera Prince Igor)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1909)


Set and costume design: Nikolai Roerich

World premiere: 19 May 1909, "Saison de l?Opera et des Ballets russes", Theatre du Chatelet, Paris. Performed as a ballet scene from the opera
Prince Igor at the Mariinsky Theatre since 1909.
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre as an independent ballet since 1997

Running time: 11 minutes

Scheherazade
choreographic drama in one act

Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Symphony suite Scheherazade)
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)

Scenario: Leon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales

Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design: Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches: Leon Bakst

World premiere: 4 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Theatre de l?Opera, Paris
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1994

Running time: 45 minutes

The Firebird
russian fairytale in two scenes

Music: Igor Stravinsky
Choreography: Michel Fokine (1910)

Libretto: Michel Fokine

Reconstruction: Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design: Anna and Anatoly Nezhny
after original sketches: Alexander Golovin, Leon Bakst and Michel Fokine

World premiere: 25 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Theatre de l?Opera, Paris
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1994
Running time: 44 minutes

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