Petrushka (ballet)
| Petrushka | |
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Stravinsky with Nijinsky as Petrushka. |
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| Choreographed by | Michel Fokine |
| Composed by | Igor Stravinsky |
| Date of premiere | 13 June 1911 |
| Place of premiere | Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris |
| Original ballet company | Ballets Russes |
| Setting | Russia |
| Created for | Vaslav Nijinsky |
| Genre | Neoclassical ballet |
| Type | classical ballet |
Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet set to music – composed in 1910–11 and revised in 1947 – by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
Petrushka is the story of a Russian traditional puppet, Petrushka, who is made of straw and with a bag of sawdust as his body, but who comes to life and develops emotions.
According to Andrew Wachtel, Petrushka is a work that fuses music, ballet, choreography and history in perfect balance. It evokes Richard Wagner's Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork), but with a Russian approach.
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