Although it is not The Rite of Spring, it was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered under the baton of Pierre Monteux, with Nijinsky playing one of the leads.
Although it is not The Rite of Spring, it was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered under the baton of Pierre Monteux, with Nijinsky playing one of the leads. The orchestration requires, in addition to the standard forces, a wordless choir. Though the composer strenuously objected to conductors who chose to omit the choir part in performance, he himself omitted the chorus in his two orchestral suites based on the ballet, the second of which contains all of Act III, begins with a depiction of Sunrise, continues with a Pantomime describing how Pan rescued the heroine from the pirates that abducted her and killed Dorcon in Act I, and ends with a Danse Génèrale in 5/4 time. For 10 points, this is what ballet based on Longus' tale of the romance between the titular goatherd and shepherdess, the longest work of Maurice Ravel.
Although it is not The Rite of Spring, it was commissioned by Sergei Diaghilev and premiered under the baton of Pierre Monteux, with Nijinsky playing one of the leads.
{Daphnis et Chloé} or {Daphnis} and {Chloe}