Choreography:
Bronislava Nijinska
Scene plan,
music and text: Igor
Stravinsky (1923)
Staged: Howard Sayette
Decor and Costumes:
Natalia Goncharova (1923)
Decor reproduced:
Boris Kaminsky
Costumes reproduced:
Tatiana Noginova
World
Premiere:
13 June 1923,
Ballet Russe de Serge de Diaghilev,
Theatre de la Gaiete-Lyrique, Paris
Premiere at the Mariinsky
Theatre: 9 June 2003
Running time: 20
minutes
About
The Wedding:
Igor
Stravinsky started to compose The
Wedding using folk texts that he
adapted, relating the story of a
Russian peasant wedding. The score
for the first two scenes was
finished in the spring of 1915 but
the complete work was only finished
two years later on April 4,
1917 in Morges.
Diaghilev decided to put these
choreographic scenes on the program
of his Ballets Russes in June 1923.
The choreography was entrusted to
Bronislava Nijinska, sister of the
famous dancer. |
