abstract:The Firebird (French title: L'oiseau de feu; ) 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 Ballets Russes company, with choreography by Michel Fokine.
Since 1910, productions of "The Firebird" taking something of a lead from Michel Fokine's Ballets Russes staging have tended to close on a stately note with a ceremonious coronation and wedding.
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