Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
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The Théâtre des Champs-Élysées is an entertainment venue standing at 15 avenue Montaigne in Paris. It is situated near Avenue des Champs-Élysées, from which it takes its name. Its eponymous main hall
View of Théâtre des Champs-Élysées from avenue Montaigne, with visible bas-reliefs by Antoine Bourdelle
Perspective view
Street façade with bas-reliefs by Antoine Bourdelle
The Muses Running to Apollo and Apollo at his Meditation
The Rite of Spring
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The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company; the original
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
…example of Art Deco architecture in the city. Less than two months after its inauguration, the Théâtre hosted the world premiere of the Ballets Russes' Rite of Spring, which provoked one of the most famous classical music riots. At present, the theatre shows about three staged opera productions a year, mostly baroque…
Concept design from Diaghilev's 1913 production
Stravinsky, sketched by Picasso, 1920
Sergei Diaghilev, director of the Ballets Russes from 1909 to 1929, as painted by Léon Bakst
First page from the handwritten score of Le Sacre du printemps