Members of Finnish National Ballet re-enact The Rite of Spring Igor Stravinsky was brought up in St Petersburg, where his father was principal bass at the Mariinsky Opera. Having shown musical ...

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 ...

Now settled in Paris, the Sudeikins renewed their association with Diaghilev, and that is how, at dinner in a Montmartre restaurant in February 1921, Vera met Igor Stravinsky - during the course ...

Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Stravinsky's works fall conveniently into three periods. The first, his "Russian" period, lasts until just before the First World War. The key works ...