SAN ANTONIO — As the Firebird, ballerina Sarah Pautz gets to wear a costume fit for a mythical creature. “It's a beautiful dark red tutu with leaflike pieces that look like feathers, and lots of ...
Sometimes the youngest of audience members will cry, not because they’re scared, but because the story saddens them. “They cried last year when we did ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream,’ ” Eva Kruger, of the ...
When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Firebird” premiered in 1910, it immediately “took Paris by storm.” “It was a huge success,” explains Andrew Crust, music director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra.
The flash of a firebird, a family sent into a spin and a classical ballet explosion. Michel Fokine’s The Firebird with Igor Stravinsky’s music is a ground-breaking classic of the early 20th-century ...
The Firebird ballet is a story full of magic and love based on a Russian folk tale. Igor Stravinsky's brilliant score will be performed by the young musicians in the Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra, ...