A fabled fairytale ballet about love, war – and a golden cockerel
Based on a 1834 poem by Pushkin,
The Golden Cockerel
premiered as an epic opera by Rimsky-Korsakov in 1909 offering
satirical commentary on the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the
Russo-Japanese War. The fabled psychic cockerel first reached a wider
international audience when staged as
Le Coq d'Or by the Ballets Russes under the
choreographic direction of Mikhail Fokine and at the Opéra de Paris in
1914 under the direction of Diaghilev.
Alexei Ratmansky has restaged the folkloric fairytale ballet, which satirises King
Dodon and his bumbling conniving against the Queen of Shemakha, whom he
believes is preparing an attack. The cockerel screeches “Danger,
beware,” and the ravishing queen seduces the king, who is seriously
taken for a ride.
The sets and costumes, designed by frequent Ratmansky collaborator Richard Hudson, are inspired by the original Ballets Russes designs by Natalia Goncharova.
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