Pacific Symphony will present a program centered on Stravinsky’s The Firebird, conducted by Artistic and Music Director ...

SEATTLE – The Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrates Igor Stravinsky’s legacy as arguably the most prominent composer of 20th century ballets in its “All Stravinsky” program, featuring Kent Stowell’s ...

The Firebird was the first of two folklore ballets composed by Igor Stravinsky and commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballets Russes (Petrushka followed). The ballet premiered at the Paris Opera ...

World-renowned composer who was born in St. Petersburg scventy-five years ago. IGOR STRAVINSKY studied composition under Rimsky-korsakov and made his reputation with the Firebird ballet produced by ...

For Igor Stravinsky's 125th birthday, Pacific Northwest Ballet kicks off a two-week celebration with the PNB orchestra playing his Greeting Prelude. It's a 50-second take on "Happy Birthday!" written ...

One way of approaching Igor Stravinsky’s new ballet Agon, in première at the New York City Center last week, is through a kind of game. The game: listening to the score alone (on an excellent new ...

Sometimes the youngest of audience members will cry, not because they’re scared, but because the story saddens them. “They cried last year when we did ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ” Eva Kruger, of the ...

Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, ...

At this year’s Salzburg Festival, the German artist has designed marionettes for a troupe that usually performs “The Sound of Music.” By Ben Miller and Laetitia Vançon Kate Soper’s tender, whimsical ...