In 1920, Igor Stravinsky’s 1914 opera Le Rossignol was turned into a one-act ballet called Le Chant du Rossignol (The Song of the Nightingale), with choreography by Léonide Massine. Stravinsky agreed to do a revival of the ballet in 1925, and Diaghilev turned the choreography over to George Balanchine. The ballet never reached the success of later Balanchine works, but did establish the first collaboration between Stravinsky and Balanchine. In the years to come, their collaboration would prove to be one of the most creative partnerships ever made between a choreographer and a composer. (Le Chant du Rossignol: music by Igor Stravinsky; sets, costumes, and curtain by Henri Matisse; new choreography by George Balanchine; premiere on June 17, 1925, Théâtre de la Gaïté-Lyrique, Paris.)