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Line 4: {{Featured article}} {{Infobox ballet \| name = {{lang\|fr\|Le Sacre du printemps}}<br />The Rite of Spring~~<br/>Весна Сиващенная~~ \| native_name = {{lang-ru\|Весна священная\|Vesna svyashchennaya\|Sacred Spring\|link=no}} \| image = Roerich Rite of Spring.jpg Line 18: }} '''''The Rite of Spring'''''{{refn\|group=n\|{{lang-ru\|Весна священная\|Vesna svyashchennaya\|sacred spring}}. Full name: ''The Rite of Spring: Pictures from Pagan Russia in Two Parts'' ({{lang-fr\|Le Sacre du printemps: tableaux de la Russie païenne en deux parties}})}} ({{lang-fr\|'''Le Sacre du printemps'''\|link=no}} ~~Russian:'''''Весна Сиващенная''''' (Vesna Syvashchennaya)~~) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer [[Igor Stravinsky]]. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of [[Sergei Diaghilev]]'s [[Ballets Russes]] company; the original choreography was by [[Vaslav Nijinsky]] with stage designs and costumes by [[Nicholas Roerich]]. When first performed at the [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]] on 29 May 1913, the [[avant-garde]] nature of the music and choreography [[List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response\|caused a sensation]]. Many have called the first-night reaction a "riot" or "near-riot", though this wording did not come about until reviews of later performances in 1924, over a decade later.<ref>Levitz, pp. 146–178</ref> Although designed as a work for the stage, with specific passages accompanying characters and action, the music achieved equal if not greater recognition as a concert piece and is widely considered to be one of the most influential musical works of the 20th century. Stravinsky was a young, virtually unknown composer when Diaghilev recruited him to create works for the Ballets Russes. ''Le Sacre du printemps'' was the third such major project, after the acclaimed ''[[The Firebird\|Firebird]]'' (1910) and ''[[Petrushka (ballet)\|Petrushka]]'' (1911).{{refn\|group=n\|Though ''The Firebird'' was their first major project, Stravinsky's first collaboration with Diaghilev was creating new [[orchestration]]s for two pieces in a 1909 version of ''[[Les Sylphides]]''.}} The concept behind ''The Rite of Spring'', developed by Roerich from Stravinsky's outline idea, is suggested by its subtitle, "Pictures of Pagan Russia in Two Parts"; the scenario depicts various primitive rituals celebrating the advent of spring, after which a young girl is chosen as a sacrificial victim and dances herself to death. After a mixed critical reception for its original run and a short London tour, the ballet was not performed again until the 1920s, when a version choreographed by [[Léonide Massine]] replaced Nijinsky's original, which saw only eight performances.<ref>Everdell, pp. 323, 331–333</ref> Massine's was the forerunner of many innovative productions directed by the world's leading choreographers, gaining the work worldwide acceptance. In the 1980s, Nijinsky's original choreography, long believed lost, was reconstructed by the [[Joffrey Ballet]] in Los Angeles. Line 39: {\| class="wikitable" style="margin-right: 0;" \|- \| \|+Synopsis and structure ! ! ! \| \|- ! width="250" \| Episode ! width="250" \| English translation ! width="300" \| Synopsis{{refn\|group=n\|Except as indicated by a specific citation, the synopsis information is taken from Stravinsky's February 1914 note to Koussevitsky.<ref name=VdT26 />}} \| \|- ! colspan="4" style="background:#DCDCDC;" \| Part I: ''L'Adoration de la Terre'' (Adoration of the Earth)<ref name=VdT26 />

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