From among Stravinsky’s ballet music, The Firebird and The Rite of Spring will be performed by the Budapest Dance Theatre, and also the piece entitled Imagine, which was inspired by Stravinsky’s musical work.

His first ballet, The Firebird, immediately made the young composer world-famous; it is characterised by the significant impact of Russian folk music.

The basic idea of The Rite of Spring fired his imagination after finishing The Firebird. It is the vision of a Russian ritual from the pagan past, in which the awakening of spring – the rebirth of nature – is greeted by the sacrifice of a young human being. The celebration of the reviving spring ends in a deadly rite.

 

 

​Performed by: Dalma Doman, Tamas Kiss, Levente Balint

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Length: 20 min

Sets, costumes, stage-design by: Lorand Zachar

Lighting by: Bela Foldi    

 

Date of the premiere: April, 2013