As the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring approaches, commentator Miles Hoffman reminds us that — as earthshaking as that infamous debut was — the composer soon branched ...

Conductor Robert Spano assumes the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra’s podium again this month, his first appearances here since 2022. On May 2 and May 3 the venerated ASO music director laureate conducted a ...

This weekend, the Houston Symphony performs Igor Stravinsky’s ballet Rite of Spring, which, before it was featured alongside a bunch of dying dinosaurs in Walt Disney’s Fantasia, was probably most ...

In a rehearsal for Claudia Schreier’s new version of “The Rite of Spring,” Mikaela Santos brought the piece to its culmination — a solo in which a sacrificial female is compelled to dance to her last ...

Conductor Valery Gergiev's powerful, nearly maniacal interpretation of Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is a lesson in controlled chaos. He... The Rite of Spring sparked the most famous riot in music ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. This MASTERWORKS performance is a significant event as it marks the first time the ...

The aggressively modern ballet premiered in Paris in 1913, and provoked a response just as striking as the music and dance. Then The Curtain Opened: The Bracing Impact Of Stravinsky's 'Rite' One ...

Igor Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” with its crazy, pulsing polyrhythms and pitchy shrieks, has become standard orchestral fare, but it famously was booed when it premiered as a ballet score in Paris ...

Louisville Ballet has announced the next original ballet art film in their digital Season of Illumination - The Rite of Spring. The digital performance will stream from April 22 through May 31 and ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – While the mysterious life forces of nature were busy choreographing an early outburst of vernal colors outside Severance Music Center on Thursday evening, guest conductor Klaus ...

One of the most important dates in classical music is the April 2, 1913, premiere of Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” but not for the famous riot that disrupted the ballet in Paris’ Théatre des ...

Many music lovers consider Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring” (“Le Sacre du Printemps”), subtitled “Scenes from Pagan Russia,” the greatest orchestral composition of the 20th century. Or at least the ...