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The Firebird

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The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company. The original choreography was by Michel Fokine, working from a scenario based on Russian fairy tales about the Firebird and the blessing and curse it brings its owner. It was first performed at the Opera de Paris on 25 June 1910 and was an immediate success, launching Stravinsky to international fame and leading to his later Diaghilev collaborations Petrushka and The Rite of Spring.

Facts
Year Created
1910 1
Location
Palais Garnier, Paris 1
Commissioned By
Sergei Diaghilev 1
Classification
Genre
Dance 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Ballet 1
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Created By

Source The Firebird - Wikipedia
Michel Fokine, Artists
Source The Firebird - Wikipedia

In Form

Ballet, Art Forms
Source The Firebird - Wikipedia

In Genre

Dance, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. The Firebird - Wikipedia
  • Lead paragraph
    It was written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company
  • Premiere and reception section
    The Firebird premiered at the Palais Garnier on 25 June 1910
  • Genre reference
    The Firebird is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, written for the 1910 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company.
  • lead paragraph, medium
    The Firebird (French: L'Oiseau de feu; Russian: Жар-птица, romanized: Zhar-ptitsa) 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 Bal
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