Ballet

Firebird Suite

4 upcoming performances in New York

Igor Stravinsky’s *Firebird Suite* distills music from his 1910 ballet, a modern retelling of Russian folktales in which a prince, a magical bird, and an immortal tyrant collide. In New York, Stravinsky’s ballet scores helped define the early-20th-century city as a crossroads for European modernism; *The Firebird* arrived through the same Ballets Russes orbit that reshaped local taste. At David Geffen Hall, Gustavo Dudamel leads the New York Philharmonic in a concert suite that turns stage action into orchestral color and sharp rhythmic narrative. One critical truth remains: the score’s craft still makes fantasy feel architectural.