![]() It also set an important precedent for Stravinsky, whose opera The Nightingale, not to mention such later stage works as Renard, The Wedding and Pulcinella, to a greater or lesser extent embodied the same split between singing and movement. At the prompting of the artist Alexandre Benois, the great impresario staged the opera in Paris and London in 1914 (under the title Le coq d’or, which has stuck to it in the West), with the singers seated in rows at the sides of the stage, accompanying the movements of dancers and mimes, who enacted the plot according to the conventions of ballet d’action (choreography by Fokin). "The Golden Cockerel is the only one of Rimsky- Korsakov’s 15 operas to have achieved repertory status beyond Russia. ![]() It is in a prologue, three acts, and an epilogue by Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov to a libretto by Vladimir Nikolayevich Bel’sky after the eponymous imitation folk tale in verse by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, based in turn on ‘The House of the Weathercock’ and ‘Legend of the Arabian Astrologer’ from The Alhambra by Washington Irving. Rimsky-Korsakov's last opera, Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel) was first performed in Moscow at the Solodovnikov Theatre (Sergey Ivanovich Zimin’s private opera company), on September 24/October 7, 1909. Possibly a preparatory drawing for the Tsaritsa's costume. ![]() tear to blank right margin repaired remnants of mounting paper to upper corners of verso. Signed by the artist with initials and dated 1932 in pencil at lower left. Watercolour and pencil on laid paper with partial watermark "MBM." 320 x 240 mm. Benois, Alexandre 1870-1960 Original costume design for Le Coq d'Or
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