The great Russian composer Igor Stravinsky created “The Rite of Spring” (Le Sacre du Printemps) for Diaghilev’s Ballet Russe in 1913, which was originally choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky. He said at the time “I tried to evoke the mystery and surge of the creative power of spring…like the whole earth cracking…I was guided by no system whatever, I heard, and I wrote what I heard.” This version choreographed for Oregon Ballet Theatre in 2009 by Christopher Stowell, was hailed by critics as “a sleek, sophisticated, thoroughly neo-classic version” of this famous ballet.

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Showtimes:

March 7 - 8:00 PM
March 8 - 8:00 PM
March 9 - 2:00 PM
March 9 - 8:00 PM
March 10 - 2:00 PM
March 16 - 2:00 PM
March 16 - 8:00 PM
March 17 - 2:00 PM
March 23 - 2:00 PM
March 23 - 8:00 PM
March 24 - 2:00 PM

Tickets

Show playing at Fletcher Opera Theater - March 4-24, 2013