List of Firebird casts

The Firebird is a ballet composed by Igor Stravinsky, in close collaboration with the choreographer Michel Fokine, commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes in 1910. The ballet was premiered by the Ballets Russes in Paris on 25 June 1910, conducted by Gabriel Pierné.[1]

Premiere production

Role Premiere cast[2]
Paris, 25 June 1910
(Choreographer: Michel Fokine)

(Scenery and Costumes: Alexander Golovin & Léon Bakst) (Conductor: Gabriel Pierné)

Firebird Tamara Karsavina
Ivan Tsarevich Michel Fokine
Kaschei, the Immortal Alexey Bulgakov (ru: Алексей Дмитриевич Булгаков)
The Beautiful Tsarevna Vera Fokina

NYCB revivals

1949

George Balanchine staged the ballet for the New York City Ballet with Maria Tallchief as the Firebird, with scenery and costumes by Marc Chagall, and was performed in repertory until 1965.

1970

The ballet was restaged by Balanchine and Jerome Robbins with elaborated scenery by Chagall and with new costumes by Karinska based on Chagall's for the 1972 Stravinsky Festival.

2009 Saratoga Springs

first cast

second cast

2010 Winter

t.b.a.

References

  1. ↑ Stephen Walsh: 'Stravinsky, Igor', Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (accessed 1 April 2008), <http://www.grovemusic.com>
  2. ↑ Beaumont, Cyril W. Complete Book of Ballets London: Putnam, 1951
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