Event Calendar : Musix For You | Concerts, Festival, Event, Media programming: performed by small ensembles in various styles

Sunday 22-09-24 @ 17:00 - 19:45

Anima Eterna Brugge – Mahler/Bruckner- Pablo Heras-Casado – Besançon, FR

Kursaal Besançon, International Music Festival Besançon 2024

Friday 23-08-24 @ 19:00 - 21:00

Schubert String 5tet , Divonne-les-Bains FR

Saturday 15-06-24 t/m Tuesday 25-06-24

Stravinsky Fairy Tales – Het Balletorkest & The Dutch National Ballet

Tickets and dates:
https://www.operaballet.nl/en/dutch-national-ballet/2023-2024/stravinsky-fairy-tales?_gl=1*13903w7*_up*MQ..*_ga*NTg4NzgzODIyLjE3MTczNjgzNTY.*_ga_123456789*MTcxNzM2ODM1NS4xLjEuMTcxNzM2ODM1NS4wLjAuMjA5MTE0NjAwNA..#tickets

The Fairy’s Kiss
European premiere
Choreography Alexei Ratmansky
Music Igor Stravinsky – The Fairy’s Kiss (1928)
Set and costume design Jérôme Kaplan
Lighting design James F. Ingalls

Firebird
Choreography Alexei Ratmansky
Music Igor Stravinsky – The Firebird (1910)
Set design Simon Pastukh
Costume design Galina Solovjeva
Lighting design Brad Fields

Musical accompaniment Dutch Ballet Orchestra conducted by Matthew Rowe

The Ice Maiden and The Firebird

Ratmansky – artist in residence with New York City Ballet – was enthralled by Stravinsky’s music from an early age. The Russian-American choreographer is a master in reinterpreting famous ballets, folk tales and fairy tales, including The Ice Maiden and The Firebird – fairy tales that previously inspired Stravinsky to write two wonderful scores: Le baiser de la fée and L’Oiseau de feu.

Icy kiss

Stravinsky’s Le baiser de la fée, composed in 1928 for Les Ballets Russes, is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ice Maiden. During a snowstorm, a boy is saved by the kiss of a fairy. He grows into a handsome young man, but on the eve of his wedding, the fairy returns to claim him, sealing his fate with an icy kiss.

The legend of the firebird was the inspiration for Stravinsky’s L’Oiseau de feu from 1910. It tells the story of the tsar’s son Ivan, who captures a firebird in a magical garden. When she manages to escape, Ivan gets one of her feathers, which will save him in times of need.

Moving and passionate

Ratmansky has interpreted both fairy tales in dance in an extremely original way. In Ratmansky’s hands, The Fairy’s Kiss – with gorgeous sets and costumes by Jérôme Kaplan – becomes a moving story of a choreographer who cannot escape his fate. His passionate Firebird is a feast for the eyes, in which his firebird also stands for a force of nature that is difficult to evade.

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Friday 5-04-24 @ 20:00 - 21:00

The Song of the Viola d’Amore – Budapest, HelloAnyu Kult Bistro

Friday 29-03-24 @ 11:30 - 16:00

Matthäus Passion – Gouda, Sint-Jan Church

Saturday 23-03-24 @ 19:30 - 23:00

Event Calendar

Anima Eterna Brugge – Mahler/Bruckner- Pablo Heras-Casado – Besançon, FR

Schubert String 5tet , Divonne-les-Bains FR

Stravinsky Fairy Tales – Het Balletorkest & The Dutch National Ballet

The Ice Maiden and The Firebird

Icy kiss

Moving and passionate

The Song of the Viola d’Amore – Budapest, HelloAnyu Kult Bistro

Matthäus Passion – Gouda, Sint-Jan Church

Matthäus Passion – CMB Harderwijk Grote Kerk

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