Firebird

Alive with color, excitement, and spectacular effects, Firebird is a fantastical and thrilling fairy tale about magic, love, danger and liberation. Prince Ivan, a young hunter, strays into a mystical forest where he encounters the exotic, immortal Firebird who gives him an enchanted feather that will summon her when he is in dire need. When Ivan falls in love with a beautiful Princess who is under the spell of the evil sorcerer Kastchei, he calls the Firebird, and the battle between good and evil is joined...

The original production, with its ravishing score by the young Igor Stravinsky, was the great sensation of Diaghilev’s 1910 Ballets Russes season, and Balanchine’s 1949 version – which he created for his wife, Maria Tallchief – was New York City Ballet’s first great success. It is that version, later amplified by Jerome Robbins, that MCB is now presenting, with ravishing new costume and scenic designs by Anya Klepikov and projections by Wendall Harrington, all under the personal supervision of Lourdes Lopez, who danced the Firebird at NYCB for many years. “I grew up in this ballet,” she says. “I was a monster, I was a super, I was a princess, and then I was a Firebird.”

Now Firebird is reborn yet again, to thrill a new generation of lovers of fairy tales... and of ballet.

Miami City Ballet Premiere on February 14, 2020 at the Adrienne Arsht Center for Performing Arts; Miami, Florida.

* Igor Stravinsky THE FIREBIRD, Suite from the Ballet, 1945 version

Used by arrangement with European American Music Distributors Company, U.S. and Canadian agent for MCA/Universal Music Publishing Group, publisher and copyright owner.

While out hunting, Prince Ivan strays into a mystical realm where the Firebird dwells. Deep in the forest, he encounters a princess and they fall in love. But, mighty forces block their romantic dreams – Ivan's true love is held in captivity by the evil sorcerer Kastchei.

Firebird, the magical Russian folkloric ballet that propelled New York City ballet to stardom in 1949 is about to soar straight into the hearts of South Florida audiences when it debuts in February in Miami.