Apollo returns in Orpheus (1948), a Balanchine ballet and one of Stravinsky's last neoclassical works. In this version of the story Balanchine's choreography is an allegory about the immortality ...

Stravinsky’s music speaks of its time in all its contradictions, and it continues to speak to us now. Apollo, for instance, espouses classical order and French chic, echoing the new Art Deco ...

Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule Stravinsky's works fall conveniently into three periods. The first, his "Russian" period, lasts until just before the First World War. The key works ...