The Rite of Spring
- ‘Mild protest against the music could be heard from the beginning’ wrote Stravinsky
- Premiere – 29 May 1913 at the Theatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris
- Russian ritual devoted to the seasons
- Revolutionary piece of music
- the poor girl who dances herself to death in sacrificial dance
- revolutionary choreography by Nijinsky
- ‘knock-kneed Lolitas’
- horrifying vision of the pitilessness of nature
- Leonard Bernstein called it a prehistoric jazz
- sense of pulse
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- about sacrifice of the young girl and ceremony that goes on with that
- about building the drama around it
- about dancing yourself to death
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- riot at the premiere
- cruel music
Watch online: Le Sacre du Printemps à L’Opéra Théâtre de St Etienne.