Ballets designed by Barbara Karinska

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Chapters: Barbara Karinska, Brahms¿Schoenberg Quartet, Bugaku (ballet), Chaconne (ballet), Gaîté parisienne, Jewels (ballet), La sonnambula (Balanchine), Le jeune homme et la mort, Liebeslieder Walzer, List of Brahms¿Schoenberg Quartet casts, List of Chaconne stagings, List of Firebird casts, List of Jewels stagings, List of Liebeslieder Walzer stagings, List of Western Symphony casts, List of Western Symphony stagings, List of Who Cares? stagings, Ragtime (I), Stars and Stripes (ballet), Symphony in C (ballet), The Firebird, The Nutcracker (Balanchine), Tschaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 (ballet), Vienna Waltzes, Who Cares? (ballet). Excerpt: The Firebird, French title L'oiseau de feu (Russian: ) 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, with choreography by Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor. When the ballet was first performed on 25 June 1910, the critics were enthusiastic. Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. The Firebird was his first project. Originally, Diaghilev approached the Russian composer Anatoly Lyadov, but later hired Stravinsky to compose the music. The ballet has historic significance not only as Stravinsky's breakthrough piece ¿ "Mark him well", said Sergei Diaghilev to Tamara Karsavina, who was dancing the title role: "He is a man on the eve of celebrity..." ¿ but also as the beginning of the collaboration between Diaghilev and Stravinsky that would also produce Petrushka and The Rite of Spring. Stravinsky, sketched by PicassoIgor Stravinsky was the son of Fyodor Stravinsky, the principal bass at the Imperial Opera, St Petersburg, and Anna, née Kholodovskaya, a competent amateur singer and pianist from an old-established Russian family. Fyodor's association with many of the leading figures in Russian music, including Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin and Mussorgsky, meant that Igor grew up in an intensely musical home. In 1901 Stravinsky began to study law at St Petersburg University, while taking private lessons in harmony and counterpoint. Having impressed Rimsky-Korsakov with some of his early compositional efforts, Stravinsky worked under the guidance of the older composer. By the time of his mentor's death in 1908 Stravinsky had produced several works, among them a Piano Sonata in F-sharp minor (1903¿04), a Symphony in E-flat major (1907), which he catalogued as "Opus 1"