Ballet

The Red Poppy

In 1929, Vladimir Schwartz designed the sets and costumes for Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy or what the press called “the first Soviet ballet on a modern revolutionary theme.” The title of t...

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai

The Fountain of Bakhchisarai is a choreographic poem set to the music of Boris Asafiev. Based on the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, the ballet was premiered at the Kirov Theatre of Opera...

Pétrouchka

Pétrouchka was the first ballet on a Russian theme to be created jointly by composer Igor Stravinsky, choreographer Mikhail Fokine and artist Alexander Benois. Made for Sergei Diaghilev’s third Saiso...

Die Puppenfee

Die Puppenfee was first staged in Russia in 1897. This one-act ballet was originally created by brothers Nikolai and Sergei Legat and staged across Europe. to the music of Josef Bayer. Die Puppenfee ...

L’Oiseau de feu

Mikhail Fokine’s one-act ballet L’Oiseau de feu, set to the music of Igor Stravinsky, was premiered in Paris in 1910. Léon Bakst designed the costumes of the Firebird and Princess Unearthly Beauty, w...

Le Pavillon d’Armide

In 1903, Alexander Benois conceived the idea for a romantic ballet-pantomime based on Théophile Gautier’s novella Omphale. At the start of the 1900s, he and the other members of the World of Art rega...

La Légende de Joseph

Mikhail Fokine ’s mimodrama-ballet La Légende de Joseph opened Sergei Diaghilev’s sixth Saison Russe in Paris in 1914. The Austrian composer Richard Strauss composed the music at the request of Diagh...

Sylvia

Léon Bakst’s first theatrical commission was the sets and costumes for a production of Clément Léo Délibes’s ballet Sylvia, designed in collaboration with Yevgeny Lanceray, Konstantin Korovin and Val...

Islamey

After listening to Mily Balakirev ’s piano fantasy Islamey (1869), orchestrated by Sergei Lyapunov, Mikhail Fokine was inspired to create a ballet based on the motifs of the Arabian Nights. The balle...

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