Collection Items

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    " Polovtsian Dances" from act 2 of the opera Prince Igor Article. Music by Aleksandr Borodin, completed and partly orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Aleksandr Glazunov; sets and costumes by Nikolai Roerich; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 19 May 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. [The “Polovtsian Dances” were so successful that the work was performed without singers in later seasons.]
    • Contributor: Borodin, Aleksandr - Glazunov, Aleksandr - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai - Fokine, Michel - Roerich, Nikolai
    • Date: 1909-05-19
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    Le Festin (suite of dances) Article. Music by Aleksandr Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky; sets by Konstantin Korovin; costumes by Leon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Ivan Bilibin, Konstantin Korovin; pre-existing choreography by Marius Petipa, with arrangements and new choreography by Michel Fokine, Aleksandr Gorsky, Nikolai Golts, and Feliks Kshessinsky; premiere on 18 May 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. [This divertissement, a pastiche of dances from...
    • Contributor: Glazunov, Aleksandr - Korovin, Konstantin - Marius Petipa - Tchaikovsky, Petr Ilich - Mussorgsky, Modest - Golts, Nikolai - Kshessinsky, Feliks - Glinka, Mikhail - Gorsky, Aleksandr - Bakst, Leon - Fokine, Michel - Bilibin, Ivan - Benois, Alexandre - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai
    • Date: 1909-05-18
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    Les Sylphides (ballet; "Romantic reverie" in one act) Article. Music by Frédéric Chopin, orchestrated by Aleksandr Glazunov, Igor Stravinsky, and Sergei Taneyev; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 2 June 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. [A prior version of the work was produced in 1907 as Chopiniana.]
    • Contributor: Glazunov, Aleksandr - Stravinsky, Igor - Chopin, Frédéric - Taneyev, Sergei - Fokine, Michel - Benois, Alexandre
    • Date: 1909-06-02
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    Cléopâtre (ballet in one act) Article. Music by Anton Arensky, with additional music by Aleksandr Glazunov, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sergei Taneyev, Nikolai Tcherepnin; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 2 June 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. [Cléopâtre was based on Fokine’s 1908 Une Nuit d’Egypte, which featured three of the Ballets Russes most famous dancers: Anna Pavlova, Ida Rubinstein, and...
    • Contributor: Glazunov, Aleksandr - Arensky, Anton - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai - Mussorgsky, Modest - Taneyev, Sergei - Fokine, Michel - Bakst, Léon - Glinka, Mikhail - Tcherepnin, Nikolai
    • Date: 1909-06-02
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    Le Carnaval (ballet in one act) Article. Music by Robert Schumann, orchestrated by Anton Arensky, Aleksandr Glazunov, Anatol Liadov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai Tcherepnin; libretto by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 20 May 1910, Theater des Westens, Berlin.
    • Contributor: Glazunov, Aleksandr - Arensky, Anton - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai - Liadov, Anatol - Bakst, Léon - Schumann, Robert - Fokine, Michel - Tcherepnin, Nikolai
    • Date: 1910-05-20
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    Les Orientales (choreographic divertissement) Article. Music by Anton Arensky, Aleksandr Borodin, Aleksandr Glazunov, Christian Sinding, and Edvard Grieg, with orchestration by Igor Stravinsky; sets by Konstantin Korovin; costumes by Konstantin Korovin and Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 25 June 1910, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.
    • Contributor: Borodin, Aleksandr - Glazunov, Aleksandr - Arensky, Anton - Sinding, Christian - Stravinsky, Igor - Korovin, Konstantin - Bakst, Léon - Grieg, Edvard - Fokine, Michel
    • Date: 1910-06-25
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    Le Festin (suite of dances) Article. Music by Aleksandr Glazunov, Anton Arensky, Modest Mussorgsky, Erik Satie, Léo Delibes, and Nikolas Tcherepnin; choreography by George Balanchine, Michel Fokine, and others; premiere 18 February 1925, Nouvelle Salle de Musique, Monte Carlo. [This divertissement, a pastiche of dances from many ballets, premiered in 1909. It was performed during the seasons of 1910; 1912; 1914; 1918; and 1920—often with different combinations of dances....
    • Contributor: Glazunov, Aleksandr - Tcherepnin, Nikolas - Arensky, Anton - Mussorgsky, Modest - Balanchine, George - Fokine, Michel - Satie, Erik - Delibes, Léo
    • Date: 1925-02-18