On June 25 1910, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird opened to acclaim at the Paris Opéra. The success propelled its composer, then aged 28, to international prominence, a position of influence he ...

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 ...

Alexander Shelley leads the Pacific Symphony in a spectacular presentation of Stravinsky's Firebird from January 15 to 18, featuring full-length animated visuals. The concert opens with John Adams’ ...

The tale goes that the phoenix — the bird of fire — lives for 500 years. When it's ready to die, its nest flames up and a new phoenix rises from the ashes. Igor Stravinsky set this legend to music in ...

Marking a pivotal moment in his early career, Igor Stravinsky’s 1910 ballet The Firebird brought the composer international attention with a score that contrasted lyricism with sounds that challenged ...

When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Firebird” premiered in 1910, it immediately “took Paris by storm.” “It was a huge success,” explains Andrew Crust, music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.

Nimbus Dance and New Jersey Symphony reimagine Stravinsky’s Firebird for today's world. Nimbus Dance joins forces with the full New Jersey Symphony for a reimagined Firebird, bringing Stravinsky’s ...

Filled with glittering orchestral colors and vibrant Russian folk flavor, Stravinsky’s revelatory score for The Firebird took him from an unknown young composer to an overnight star. Experience this ...

On this week's podcast of From the Top, the victorious finale from Stravinsky's Firebird Suite is performed by a teenage pianist from Chicago. He's joined by a teenage violinist using YouTube to ...

Other Minds is pleased to welcome back Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies for a recital of solo and piano four-hands music with real-time interactive projections by Cori O'Lan at Hertz Hall in ...