Which Belorusian-born artist designed the scenery and costumes for Stravinsky's 'The Firebird'?
"the New York City Ballet in 1949 with Maria Tallchief as the Firebird, with scenery and costumes by Marc Chagall, and was kept in the repertory until 1965. The ballet was restaged by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins in 1970 for the New York City Ballet with elaborated scenery by Chagall, and with new costumes by Karinska based on Chagall's for the 1972 Stravinsky Festival that introduced Gelsey Kirkland as the Firebird. In 1970 Maurice Béjart staged his own version in which the ballet's protagonist was a young man who rose from the ranks of the revolutionists and became their"
"The Firebird The Firebird (; ) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with a scenario by Alexandre Benois and Fokine based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and the blessing and curse it possesses for its owner. When first performed at the Opéra de Paris on 25 June 1910, the work was an instant success with both audience and critics. The ballet has historic significance not only as Stravinsky's breakthrough"
"K. Garelick]. Perhaps Diaghilev's most notable composer-collaborator, however, was Igor Stravinsky. Diaghilev heard Stravinsky's early orchestral works ""Fireworks"" and ""Scherzo fantastique"", and was impressed enough to ask Stravinsky to arrange some pieces by Chopin for the Ballets Russes. In 1910, he commissioned his first score from Stravinsky, ""The Firebird"". ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913) followed shortly afterwards, and the two also worked together on ""Les noces"" (1923) and ""Pulcinella"" (1920) together with Picasso, who designed the costumes and the set. After the Russian Revolution of 1917, Diaghilev stayed abroad. The new Soviet regime, once it became obvious"
"Theatre and Performance. A full catalogue and details of access arrangements are available here. Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent"
"Igor Stravinsky Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (; ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor. He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. Stravinsky's compositional career was notable for its stylistic diversity. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Serge Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911), and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The last of these transformed the way in which subsequent composers thought about rhythmic structure and was largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as"
"glowing if removed, and one feather can light a large room if not concealed. In later iconography, the form of the Firebird is usually that of a smallish fire-colored peacock, complete with a crest on its head and tail feathers with glowing ""eyes"". It is beautiful but dangerous, showing no sign of friendliness. The story of the Firebird inspired many literary works, including ""The Little Humpback Horse"" by Pyotr Yershov. The most famous production of the Firebird was by Sergei Diaghilev of Ballets Russes who commissioned composer Igor Stravinsky to create the enormously popular large-scale ballet score known as ""The"
"the room completely. The story of the Firebird quest has inspired literary works, including ""The Little Humpback Horse"" by Pyotr Yershov. The most famous version of the Firebird legend was the production by Sergei Diaghilev of Ballet Russe, who commissioned composer Igor Stravinsky to score the enormously popular large-scale ballet called ""The Firebird"". In Stravinsky's ballet, with a scenario written by Michel Fokine and Alexandre Benois, the creature is half-woman, half-bird. She is captured by Prince Ivan, but when he sets her free she gives him a magic feather, which he uses to defeat the spell of Kaschei the Immortal."
"1907, Stravinsky designed and built his own house in Ustilug, which he called ""my heavenly place"". In this house, Stravinsky worked on seventeen of his early compositions, among them ""Feu d'artifice"", ""The Firebird"", ""Petrushka"", and ""The Rite of Spring"". Recently renovated, the house is now a Stravinsky house-museum open to the public. Many documents, letters, and photographs are on display there, and a Stravinsky Festival is held annually in the nearby town of Lutsk. Stravinsky became an overnight sensation following the success of the ""Firebird""'s premiere in Paris on 25 June 1910. The composer had travelled from his estate in"
"Académie Vitti in Paris. In 1901 he moved to the Saint Petersburg region from Moscow. It was here that he came into his own as a stage designer, combining symbolism and modernism on operatic and dramatic productions for Diaghilev, Meyerhold and others. After the Revolution of 1917, Golovin found work in theatre less and less often, and so delved into painting and graphic illustration. Golovin provided the set design for the 1910 original production of Stravinsky's ""The Firebird"" ballet. Golovin provided the scenic design for an important production of Pierre Beaumarchais's ""The Marriage of Figaro"" at the Moscow Art Theatre."
"these works Diaghilev recruited the choreographer Michel Fokine, the designer Léon Bakst and the dancer Vaslav Nijinsky. Diaghilev's intention, however, was to produce new works in a distinctively 20th-century style, and he was looking for fresh compositional talent. Having heard ""Feu d'artifice"" he approached Stravinsky, initially with a request for help in orchestrating music by Chopin to create the ballet ""Les Sylphides"". Stravinsky worked on the opening ""Nocturne"" and the closing ""Valse Brillante""; his reward was a much bigger commission, to write the music for a new ballet, ""The Firebird"" (""L'oiseau de feu"") for the 1910 season. Stravinsky worked through"
"and ""Giselle"". Benois also participated with Igor Stravinsky and Michel Fokine in the creation of ""Petrushka"", to which he contributed much of the scenario as well as the stage sets and costumes. Léon Bakst was also an original member of both The Nevsky Pickwickians and ""Mir iskusstva"". He participated as designer in productions of the Ballets Russes from its beginning in 1909 until 1921, creating sets and costumes for ""Scheherazade"", ""The Firebird"", ""Les Orientales"", ""Le Spectre de la rose"", ""L'Après-midi d'une faune"", and ""Daphnis et Chloé"", among other productions. In 1917, Pablo Picasso designed sets and costumes in the Cubist"
"of Rimsky-Korsakov who, at the time, was his teacher and mentor. It has the form of a scherzo but is still labeled ""orchestral fantasy"" because of its short length. Alexander Siloti conducted the premiere on 6 February 1909. Stravinsky got the commission from Serge Diaghilev to write ""The Firebird"" (1910) in part because Diaghilev heard this piece of music, and was impressed with its orchestration. The work is scored for piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), 3 clarinets (3rd doubling bass clarinet), 2 bassoons, 6 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, bass drum, triangle, glockenspiel,"
"""The Firebird"" with Vaslav Nijinsky, her occasional partner. (This role was originally offered to Anna Pavlova, who could not come to terms with Stravinsky's strikingly new score.) Karsavina left Russia in 1918, just before Red Terror was launched by the Bolsheviks at the beginning of the Russian Civil War, and moved to Paris, where she continued her association with the Ballets Russes as a leading ballerina. (Her brother Lev Platonovich Karsavin was expelled from Russia in 1922 by the Bolsheviks on one of the philosophers' ships. In 1928 he moved to newly independent Lithuania, where he was awarded a university"
"the winter of 1909–10, in close association with Fokine who was choreographing ""The Firebird"". During this period Stravinsky made the acquaintance of Nijinsky who, although not dancing in the ballet, was a keen observer of its development. Stravinsky was uncomplimentary when recording his first impressions of the dancer, observing that he seemed immature and gauche for his age (he was 21). On the other hand, Stravinsky found Diaghilev an inspiration, ""the very essence of a great personality"". ""The Firebird"" was premiered on 25 June 1910, with Tamara Karsavina in the main role, and was a great public success. This ensured"
"Konstantin Flavitsky Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky () (September 13(25), 1830 – September 3(15), 1866) was a Russian painter. His most famous painting is ""Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood"" based on the legend of the death of Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova, the daughter of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky and Elizabeth of Russia in her prison cellar during the flood in Saint Petersburg. ""In his art Konstantin Flavitsky adhered to classical traditions, the principles bequeathed by K.P.Bryullov. His creative heritage is not extensive and he is known primarily as the author of the painting Princess Tarakanova."
"be presented in the 1909 debut ""Saison Russe"" of his new ballet company. ""The Firebird"" was first performed at the Paris Opéra on 25 June 1910 by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Like Stravinsky's earlier student works, ""The Firebird"" continued to look backward to Rimsky-Korsakov not only in its orchestration, but also in its overall structure, harmonic organization, and melodic content. According to Taruskin, Stravinsky's second ballet for the Ballet Russes, ""Petrushka"", is where ""Stravinsky at last became Stravinsky."" The music itself makes significant use of a number of Russian folk tunes in addition to two waltzes by Viennese composer Joseph Lanner"
"in St. Petersburg in 1890. Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, working for Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: ""The Firebird (L'Oiseau de feu)"" (1910), ""Petrushka"" (1911) and ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913). The rhythmic structure of these compositions were largely responsible for Stravinsky's enduring reputation as a musical revolutionary who pushed the boundaries of musical design. Stravinsky's admiration for Tchaikovsky is well documented. Stravinsky's music has often been compared with Cubism. His path often crossed with the Cubists, notably Picasso"
"Felix Lembersky Felix Samoilovich Lembersky () (Lublin, Poland, November 11, 1913 – Leningrad, currently St. Petersburg, December 2, 1970) was a Russian/Soviet painter, artist, teacher, theater stage designer and an organizer of artistic groups. A refugee of World War I, he grew up in Berdyczów (now Berdychiv, Ukraine) and studied art in Kiev and Leningrad—at the Jewish Arts and Trades School, known as Kultur-Lige (1928–29), the Kiev Art Institute (1933–34) and the Leningrad Academy of Art (1935–41). He graduated with high honors, completing his thesis during the Siege of Leningrad. He was wounded in the defense of Leningrad during World"
"1908, respectively. In February 1909, two of Stravinsky's orchestral works, the and (""Fireworks"") were performed at a concert in Saint Petersburg, where they were heard by Serge Diaghilev, who was at that time involved in planning to present Russian opera and ballet in Paris. Diaghilev was sufficiently impressed by ""Fireworks"" to commission Stravinsky to carry out some orchestrations and then to compose a full-length ballet score, ""The Firebird"". From approximately 1890 until 1914 the composer frequently visited Ustilug, a town in the modern Volyn Oblast, Ukraine. He spent most of his summers there, where his father-in-law had an estate. In"
"was looking for fresh compositional talent. The ballet was the first of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes productions to have an all-original score composed for it. Alexandre Benois wrote in 1910 that he had two years earlier suggested to Diaghilev the production of a Russian nationalist ballet, an idea all the more attractive given both the newly awakened French passion for Russian dance and also the ruinously expensive costs of staging opera. The inspiration of mixing the mythical Firebird with the unrelated Russian tale of Koschei the Deathless possibly came from a popular child's verse by Yakov Polonsky, ""A Winter's Journey"""
"were costumes designed by André Derain (""La Boutique fantasque"", 1919) and Henri Matisse (""Le chant du rossignol"", 1920), and Léon Bakst. Posters recalling the surge of creativity that surrounded the Ballets Russes included Pablo Picasso's iconic image of the Chinese Conjuror for the audacious production of ""Parade"" and Jean Cocteau's poster for ""Le Spectre de la rose"". Costumes and stage designs presented included works by Alexander Benois, for ""Le Pavillon d'Armide"" and ""Petrushka""; Léon Bakst, for ""La Péri"" and ""Le Dieu bleu""; Mikhail Larionov, for ""Le Soleil à Minuit""; and Natalia Goncharova, for ""The Firebird"" (1925 version). The exhibition also"
"scale Rimsky-Korsakov created for the character Chernobog in his opera ""Mlada"". The Khorovod, meanwhile, uses the same folk tune Rimsky-Korsakov presented in his Sinfonietta, Op. 31. The ""Firebird"" has been restaged by many choreographers, including George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins (co-choreographers), Graeme Murphy, Alexei Ratmansky, and Yuri Possokhov. The ballet was revived in 1934 by Colonel Wassily de Basil's company, the Ballets Russes de Monte-Carlo, in a production staged in London, using the original decor and costumes from Diaghilev's company. The company subsequently performed the ballet in Australia, during the 1936–37 tour. The work was staged by George Balanchine for"
"or behind screens that could be easily assembled and just as easily disassembled. After the Russian Revolution, Soviet authorities forced Petrushka indoors. They wanted to be better able to monitor his subversiveness. The gestation of ""Petrushka"" was not a straightforward matter. While completing ""The Firebird"" during the spring of 1910, Stravinsky had a ""vision"" of a solemn pagan rite: sage elders, seated in a circle, watching a young girl dance herself to death. They were sacrificing her to propitiate the god of Spring. Such was the theme of ""The Rite of Spring."" Immediately following the stunning success of ""The Firebird"""
"to play for a Paris season given by Sergei Diaghilev's ballet company, the Ballets Russes. Monteux played under Pierné in the world premiere of Stravinsky's ""The Firebird"". In 1911 Diaghilev engaged Nikolai Tcherepnin to conduct the premiere of Stravinsky's ""Petrushka"". Monteux conducted the preliminary rehearsals before Tcherepnin arrived; Stravinsky was so impressed that he insisted that Monteux conduct the premiere. ""Petrushka"" was part of a triple bill, all conducted by Monteux. The other two pieces were ""Le Spectre de la Rose"" and ""Scheherazade"", a balletic adaptation of Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite of the same name. The three works were choreographed by"
"at a time when he was virtually unknown to compose the music for ""The Firebird"", after the composer Anatoly Lyadov proved unreliable, and this was instrumental in launching Stravinsky's career in Europe and the United States of America. Stravinsky's early ballet scores were the subject of much discussion. ""The Firebird"" (1910) was seen as an astonishingly accomplished work for such a young artist (Debussy is said to have remarked drily: ""Well, you've got to start somewhere!""). Many contemporary audiences found ""Petrushka"" (1911) to be almost unbearably dissonant and confused. ""The Rite of Spring"" (1913) nearly caused an audience riot. It"
"Bakst. For Stravinsky, it was a major breakthrough both with the public and with the critics, Michel-Dimitri Calvocoressi in particular hailing Stravinsky as the legitimate heir to The Mighty Handful. ""The Firebird""'s success also secured Stravinsky's position as Diaghilev's star composer, and there were immediate talks of a sequel, leading to the composition of ""Petrushka"" and ""The Rite of Spring"". ""Mark him well—said Sergei Diaghilev to Tamara Karsavina, who was dancing the title role—he is a man on the eve of celebrity..."" Stravinsky used several ideas from works by Rimsky-Korsakov in his score. Koschei's ""Infernal Dance"" borrows the highly chromatic"
"kopek postage stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of his birth (together with that of Nikolai Nevrev). Konstantin Flavitsky Konstantin Dmitriyevich Flavitsky () (September 13(25), 1830 – September 3(15), 1866) was a Russian painter. His most famous painting is ""Princess Tarakanova, in the Peter and Paul Fortress at the Time of the Flood"" based on the legend of the death of Yelizaveta Alekseyevna Tarakanova, the daughter of Aleksey Grigorievich Razumovsky and Elizabeth of Russia in her prison cellar during the flood in Saint Petersburg. ""In his art Konstantin Flavitsky adhered to classical traditions, the principles bequeathed by K.P.Bryullov. His creative heritage"
"still be several decades before most countries outside of Europe could claim their own professional ballet companies, however. Sergei Diaghilev brought ballet full-circle back to Paris when he opened his company, Ballets Russes. It was made up of dancers from the Russian exile community in Paris after the Revolution. Diaghilev and composer Igor Stravinsky merged their talents to bring Russian folklore to life in ""The Firebird"" and ""Petrushka"" choreographed by Fokine. Diaghilev's next choreographic commissions went to Nijinsky. His First ballet was ""L'apres-midi d'un Faune"" (Afternoon of a Faun) to music by Debussy. It was notable for its two dimensional"
"to and nostalgia for the theatre"". His first assignment designing sets after Russia was for the ballet ""Aleko"" in 1942, while living in America. In 1945 he was also commissioned to design the sets and costumes for Stravinsky's ""Firebird"". These designs contributed greatly towards his enhanced reputation in America as a major artist and, as of 2013, are still in use by New York City Ballet. Cogniat describes how Chagall's designs ""immerse the spectator in a luminous, colored fairy-land where forms are mistily defined and the spaces themselves seem animated with whirlwinds or explosions."" His technique of using theatrical color"
"the Cimetière des Batignolles, in Paris, during a very moving ceremony. In late 2010, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London presented an exhibit of Bakst's costumes and prints. Léon Bakst Léon Bakst (, Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866 – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghilev circle and the Ballets Russes, for which he designed exotic, richly coloured sets and costumes. Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg was born in Grodno"
"tunes from that region and from Georgia and Iran; these tunes would play an important part in his musical development. One of the first compositions to show this influence was his setting of Alexander Pushkin's ""Georgian song"", while a quasi-oriental style appeared in other songs. In 1864, Balakirev considered writing an opera based on the folk legend of the Firebird (a subject upon which Igor Stravinsky would later base his ballet ""The Firebird""), but abandoned the project due to the lack of a suitable libretto. He completed his Second Overture on Russian Themes that same year (1864), which was performed"
"of the first season of the Ballets Russes in Paris. At Ballets Russes, he collaborated with other artists to create a ballet of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's ""Scheherazade"", which premiered in 1910. The ballet was inspired by symphonic poems composed by Rimsky-Korsakov and the tale of the 1001 Nights. The sets designed by Léon Bakst matched the sexualized choreography. Despite the lack of historical accuracy, the ballet was successful due to its brilliant colors, exoticism, and sexual overtones. The 1910 production featured Nijinsky in the role of the Golden Slave. ""The Firebird"" (1910) was also created by a ""committee,"" a process inspired"
"Pavel Tchelitchew Pavel Fyodorovich Tchelitchew () (21 September 1898, , near Moscow – 31 July 1957, Rome) was a Russian-born surrealist painter, set designer and costume designer. Tchelitchew was born to an aristocratic family of landowners and was educated by private tutors. Tchelitchew expressed an early interest in ballet and art. He left Russia in 1920, lived in Berlin from 1921 to 1923, and moved to Paris in 1923. In Paris Tchelitchew became acquainted with Gertrude Stein and, through her, the Sitwell and Gorer families. He and Edith Sitwell had a long-standing close friendship and they corresponded frequently. His first"