Ballet

Orpheus

Orpheus is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Igor Stravinsky. Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet in three tableaux composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with…

Orpheus
Image: Arnold Newman · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Choreography
George Balanchine
Music
Igor Stravinsky
Premiere
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First performed at
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About the work

Orpheus is a thirty-minute neoclassical ballet in three tableaux composed by Igor Stravinsky in collaboration with choreographer George Balanchine in Hollywood, California in 1947. The work was commissioned by the Ballet Society, which Balanchine founded together with Lincoln Kirstein and of which he was Artistic Director. Sets and costumes were created by Isamu Noguchi.

From the Wikipedia article “Orpheus (ballet)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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