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Perséphone (Stravinsky)

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The melodrama tells the story of the Greek goddess Persephone, in three parts:
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It was first performed under the direction of the composer at the
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in Paris, on 30 April 1934 in a double bill with the ballet
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Persephone on Frederick Ashton page of ROH archive online
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Other choreographed versions have included those of
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New York: Penguin Putnam, 2001. 14: 1388:Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 813:Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra 781:Movements for Piano and Orchestra 1478: 1468: 1467: 1112:Three Pieces for String Quartet 792:Canon on a Russian Popular Tune 439:Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone 329:(Persephone in the Underworld); 300:Mercure, dancer Anatole Viltzak 207:is accompanied by Stravinsky's 1175:Symphonies of Wind Instruments 1117:Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet 1059:Three Movements from Petrushka 323:(The Abduction of Persephone); 180:under Pedro Ignacio Calderón. 1: 160:It was also performed at the 1535:Compositions with a narrator 242:, 1999, San Francisco), and 746:The Song of the Nightingale 701:Symphony in Three Movements 418:The New Penguin Opera Guide 367:"A shining study in vision" 1561: 394:Casaglia, Gherardo (2005). 1510:Operas by Igor Stravinsky 1463: 1182:Fanfare for a New Theatre 1093:Two Sketches for a Sonata 899:The Owl and the Pussy Cat 489: 373:. 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Index

Mélodrame
Igor Stravinsky

André Gide
Persephone
Opéra
Persephone
mélodrame
Igor Stravinsky
libretto
André Gide
Opéra
Jacques Ibert
Ida Rubinstein
tenor
René Maison
Eumolphe
Teatro Colón
Buenos Aires
Victoria Ocampo
Rio de Janeiro
China Zorrilla
George Balanchine
Kurt Jooss
Frederick Ashton
Pina Bausch
Martha Graham
Symphony in C
Vera Zorina
André Cluytens

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