Serge Diaghilev and his World:

A Centennial Celebration of Diaghilev’s
Ballets Russes

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Fokine’s “Polovtsian Dances”

Fokine’s “Polovtsian Dances” (br0011)

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The “Polovtsian Dances” scene from act 2 of the opera Prince Igor was so successful that the work was performed without singers in later seasons. (“Polovtsian Dances”: music by Aleksandr Borodin, completed and partly orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Aleksandr Glazunov; sets and costumes by Nikolai Roerich; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on May 19, 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.)
The “Polovtsian Dances” scene from act 2 of the opera <em>Prince Igor</em> was so successful that the work was performed without singers in later seasons. (“Polovtsian Dances”: music by Aleksandr Borodin, completed and partly orchestrated by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Aleksandr Glazunov; sets and costumes by Nikolai Roerich; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on May 19, 1909, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.)