Today is the 100th anniversary of the premiere of a Stravinsky masterpiece, cause of great fury and consternation at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées at the time. Music and dance were forever changed by the arrival of the Rite of Spring.
Watch the replay of yesterday’s historic live broadcast from the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, with the one and only Valery Gergiev conducting the Mariinsky Orchestra and the Mariinsky Ballet in two versions of the Rite: a reconstruction of the original by Nijinsky (painstakingly researched by Millicent Hodson and Kenneth Archer) and a new version by Sascha Waltz.
