There are three distinct concert Suites arranged from the full ballet by Stravinsky, one in 1910, one in 1919 with reduced orchestration (the most frequently played and best known) and one in 1945 ...

Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule For much of his life, Stravinsky was in love with Vera Sudeikina; they met in 1921, finally marrying in 1940 after the death of Stravinsky's wife ...

What's so great about Stravinsky? Well, The Rite of Spring. Obviously. If you know only one work by Igor Stravinsky, then it’s likely to be this. A landmark of modernism as world changing as ...

Unlike many other Russian exiles of his generation, Stravinsky did not plan to leave Russia permanently. He was working in Paris for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes enterprise when the First World War ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Although only lasting around 50 minutes, Le Rossignol is a generous opera that gives us two sides of ...