CHOPINIANA
choreographic composition in one act
Music by Frédéric Chopin (suite of piano pieces orchestrated by Alexander Glazunov and Maurice Keller)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1908)
Scenario by Michel Fokine
Revised version by Agrippina Vaganova (1931)
Set design based on original sketches by Orest Allegri
World premiere: 8 March 1908, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
Running time 35 minutes | | THE FIREBIRD
russian fairytale in two scenes
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Libretto by Michel Fokine
Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design by Anna and Anatoly Nezhny
after original sketches by Alexander Golovin, Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine
World premiere: 25 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1994
Running time 45 minutes | | SCHÉHÉRAZADE choreographic drama in one act
Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Symphony suite Schéhérazade)
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Scenario by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales
Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches by Léon Bakst
World premiere: 4 June 1910, Les Ballets Russes de Serge de Diaghilev, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris
In the repertoire of the Mariinsky Theatre since 1994
Running time 40 minutes |