The riotous premiere of "The Rite of Spring" in 1913 Paris is something of a legend. Igor Stravinsky's dissonant, pulsating score; Vaslav Nijinsky's frantic, tribalistic choreography; and the ballet's ...
Music director-designate Klaus Mäkelä leads the orchestra in an all-Paris program, including Milhaud’s “Le Boeuf sur le Toit, ...
Running and leaping on a hard floor is one thing, but Bausch requires it to happen on a thick carpet of soft, crumbly peat. It takes 10 stagehands a full 30 minutes to cover the Sadler’s stage with ...
Trombone soloist Jörgen van Rijen performs with guest conductor Aziz Shokhakimov and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra at the Meyerson Symphony Center on April 10, 2025. Sylvia Elzafon / Dallas Symphony ...
Sibelius’ Violin Concerto premiered in Helsinki in 1904. In 1913, Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes performed the premiere of The Rite of Spring, choreographed by its legendary star Vaslav Nijinsky ...