Evening of one-act ballets by Mikhail Fokin: Petrouchka. The Firebird

Petrouchka
burlesque in four scenes
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Production: Leonid Leontiev (1920)
based on the choreographic composition: Michel Fokine

Libretto: Igor Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois

Production: Leonid Leontiev for the Mariinsky Theatre in 1920
based on the choreographic composition: Michel Fokine
Restaged: Sergei Vikharev
Sets: Alexandre Benois for the production at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1920
Reproduced: Vyacheslav Okunev
Costumes: Alexandre Benois for the production at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1920
Reproduced: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting design: Vladimir Lukasevich

Decors and costumes by Alexandre Benois reproduced from the original scetches in the collections of the State Russian Museum, the St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and from the collection of the Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

World premiere: 13 June 1911, Theatre du Chatelet, Paris
Premiere of Leonid Leontiev`s production: 20 November 1920,State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (formerly Mariinsky), Petrograd
Premiere of revived version: 8 May 2000, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

Running time: 40 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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