Evening of ballet "Stravinsky. Puppets. Dances": Petrushka. The Firebird Tickets

Stanislavsky Music Theatre, Moscow, Russia

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Available Dates: 13 - 14 Feb, 2026 (3 events)

Important Info

Type: Ballet

City: Moscow, Russia

Duration: 2h 15min with 1 interval

Acts: 2

Intervals: 1

Ticket delivery: E-Tickets

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Cast

Performers

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Creators

Composer: Igor Stravinsky

Choreographer: Michel Fokine

Librettist: Alexandre Benois

Librettist: Michel Fokine

Overview

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, located just 750 metres from the Bolshoi Theatre, proudly presents a new ballet evening "Stravinsky. Puppets. Dances" — a vibrant dialogue between classical heritage and contemporary theatrical language. Bringing together dancers of exceptional calibre — including artists who have performed on the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre and graduates of the same leading academies that have shaped generations of Bolshoi performers — this premiere offers ballet at the highest professional level.

The programme features Petrushka and The Firebird, two legendary ballets created by Igor Stravinsky for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the early 20th century. On the stage of the Stanislavsky Theatre, they appear in bold new interpretations by director Alexey Frandetti and choreographers Konstantin Semyonov and Kirill Radev, with Timur Zangiev as conductor.

Set design is by Viktor Nikonenko, with costumes by Anastasia Pugashkina and Ekaterina Gutkovskaya.

A special highlight of the evening is the first collaboration between the Stanislavsky Theatre and the Obraztsov Puppet Theatre: expressive puppets created by Viktor Nikonenko become full-fledged stage partners of the dancers, embodying fairy-tale characters alongside living performers.

In Petrushka, the production remains close to the original libretto by Alexandre Benois and Stravinsky himself, while modern choreographic language adds new psychological depth and contemporary resonance.

The Firebird, by contrast, transports the fairy tale into the present day: Frandetti’s new libretto and Radev’s individualized movement vocabulary reinterpret the myth through the lens of modern life, its heroes, antiheroes, and inner conflicts.

The evening unfolds as a journey across time, style, and meaning — two contrasting ballets separated by an interval, yet united by Stravinsky’s musical genius and the theatre’s distinctive artistic vision.

Please note: the performance includes bright light flashes and high-frequency lighting effects.

Premiere performances of Stravinsky. Puppets. Dances take place as part of the Cherry Forest Open Arts Festival.

Both Stravinsky's score and Mikhail Fokine's choreography were ground breaking. Fokine shifted from classical ballet towards a more realist and folk-derived style of movement, while Stravinsky incorporated elements of folksong into his music. The role of the Firebird is challenging to dance and mesmerizing to watch - she enters the stage in a flash of movement, and her steps are bold and full of a powerful energy. The strange characters that accompany Kostcheï transform the stage into a spectacular blaze of colour and folkloric detail, and this unique ballet ends with tableau that is as vivid as it is distinctly Russian.

History

Premiere of this production: 25 June 1910, Théâtre de l´Opéra, Paris

The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine, with a scenario by Alexandre Benois and Fokine based on the Russian fairy tales of the Firebird and the blessing and curse it possesses for its owner.

Synopsis

The ballet centers on the journey of its hero, Prince Ivan. While hunting in the forest, he strays into the magical realm of Koschei the Immortal, whose immortality is preserved by keeping his soul in a magic egg hidden in a casket. Ivan chases and captures the Firebird and is about to kill her; she begs for her life and he spares her. As a token of thanks, she offers him an enchanted feather that he can use to summon her should he be in dire need.

Prince Ivan then meets thirteen princesses who are under the spell of Koschei and falls in love with one of them. The next day, Ivan confronts the magician and eventually they begin quarrelling. When Koschei sends his minions after Ivan, he summons the Firebird. She intervenes, bewitching the monsters and making them dance an elaborate, energetic dance (the "Infernal Dance").

The creatures and Koschei then fall into a deep sleep. While they sleep, the Firebird directs Ivan to a tree stump where the casket with the egg containing Koschei's soul is hidden. Ivan destroys the egg and with the spell broken, the magical creatures that Koschei held captive are freed and the palace disappears. All of the "real" beings, including the princesses, awaken and with one final hint of the Firebird's music (though in Fokine's choreography she makes no appearance in that final scene on-stage), celebrate their victory.

Venue Info

Stanislavsky Music Theatre - Moscow
B. Dmitrovka, 17

The Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre is a music theatre in Moscow.

The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre was founded in 1941 when two companies directed by the legendary reformers of twentieth-century theatre — Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko — merged: the Stanislavsky Opera Theatre (established at the end of 1918 as an Opera Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre) and the Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre (set up in 1919 as a Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre).

The new theatre followed the artistic principles of its founders, who applied the system of the Moscow Art Theatre to opera and ballet. Both Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko rejected the current conception of opera as «costume concert». They wanted to bring it closer to drama and comedy, revealing the main idea of the plot through psychologically motivated action. The ballet company entered the Theatre as a part of Nemirovich-Danchenko's troupe. It was the former company of the Moscow Art Ballet, established in 1929 by Victorina Krieger, the valued ballerina of the Bolshoi Theatre. She was Artistic Director and one of the principal dancers of the Moscow Art Ballet. Soon after Stanislavsky's death, Nemirovich-Danchenko took charge of all the companies (Vsevolod Meyerhold invited by Stanislavsky to work for his theatre, was arrested in 1939, and no other stage director could prove equal to Nemirovich-Danchenko). Then the theatre was given its present name.