Description
The DVD "Le Sacre Du Printemps - The Firebird" features live performances of Stravinsky's "Le Sacre Du Printemps" and "The Firebird" by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Ballet. "Le Sacre Du Printemps" reconstructs Nijinsky's original choreography from the 1913 Paris premiere, while "The Firebird" recreates Michel Fokine's choreography, first performed by the Ballets Russes at the Paris opera house in 1910.
Valery Gergiev leads the orchestra and ballet of the Mariinsky
Theatre in live performances of Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre Du
Printemps' and 'The Firebird'. 'The Rite of Spring' reconstructs
Nijinsky's original choreography from the 1913 Paris premiere,
whilst 'The Firebird' recreates Michel Fokine's choreography, first
performed by the Ballets Russes at the Paris opera house in 1910.