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Riot at the Theatre

  • Cadogan Hall SW1X 9DQ (map)

Chopin arr Glazunov/Stravinsky: Les Sylphides

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Weber arr Berliioz: The Spectre of the Rose

Borodin: Polovtsian Dances


Narrators: TBC

Conductor: Peter Ash

On 19th May 2013, Segei Diaghilev’s the impresario of the Ballets Russes, presented the premiere of a new piece by Igor Stravinsky in Paris. Billed as a Portrait of Pagan Russia, The Rite of Spring sat in the centre of a very traditional evening of popular favourites. Yet it caused a riot in the theatre. Many would later hail that evening as the birth of Modernism.

 Odyssey recreates the programme of that momentous chaotic evening.

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