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Petrushka (French: Pétrouchka; Russian: Петрушка) is a ballet by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1911 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Michel Fokine and stage designs and costumes by Alexandre Benois , who assisted Stravinsky with the libretto.
The name "Petrushka" originally and primarily refers to the specific stock character of the Russian carnival puppetry.However, like Guignol, due to the central role Petrushka played in the puppet theatre, it also has come to refer to the tradition more generally (sometimes referred to as balagan (балаган) after the carnival booths in which the plays were enacted), or even the general ...
Poster by Jean Cocteau for the 1911 Ballet Russe season showing Nijinsky in costume for Le Spectre de la rose, Paris. The Ballets Russes (French: [balɛ ʁys]) was an itinerant ballet company begun in Paris that performed between 1909 and 1929 throughout Europe and on tours to North and South America.
Trois mouvements de Petrouchka or Three Movements from Petrushka is an arrangement for piano of music from the ballet Petrushka by the composer Igor Stravinsky for the pianist Arthur Rubinstein. History
Petrushka (ペトルーシュカ, Petorūshuka) Elizaveta Baranovskaya (エリザヴェート･バラノフスカヤ, Erizaveto Baranofusukaya) (Russian: Елизавета Барановская) was a Russian ballerina (the manga states her parents were from Southern Belarus, but later moved to Russia [16] student at the Bolshoi Ballet Academy).Irradiated as a result of the Chernobyl ...
Petrushka chord, a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Petrushka .
The Petrushka chord is a recurring polytonal device used in Igor Stravinsky's ballet Petrushka and in later music. These two major triads , C major and F ♯ major – a tritone apart – clash, "horribly with each other," when sounded together and create a dissonant chord .
Petrushka was a success with the public and with all but the most diehard conservative critics. [30] Following the Paris season Diaghilev appointed Monteux principal conductor for a tour of Europe in late 1911 and early 1912. It began with a five-week season at the Royal Opera House in London. [31]