Articles and Essays

  • La Spectre de la Rose (choreographic tableux) Music by Carl Maria von Weber, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz; libretto by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, after a poem by Théophile Gautier; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 19 April 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.
  • Narcisse (ballet in 1 act) Music by Nikolai Tcherepnin; libretto by Léon Bakst; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 26 April 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.
  • Petrouchka (ballet in four tableux) Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by Igor Stravinsky and Alexandre Benois; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 13 June 1911, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.
  • Le Dieu Bleu (ballet in 1 act) Music by Reynaldo Hahn; libretto by Jean Cocteau and Fréderic de Madrazo; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 13 May 1912, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.
  • L' Après-Midi d'un Faune (choreographic poem) Music by Claude Debussy; libretto based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; premiere on 29 May 1912, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris.
  • Jeux (poem dansé) Music by Claude Debussy; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; premiere on 15 May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris.
  • Le Sacre du Printemps (ballet in 2 acts) Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by Igor Stravinsky and Nikolai Roerich; sets and costumes by Nikolai Roerich; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; premiere on 29 May 1913, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris. [The ballet was restaged with choreography by Léonide Massine in 1920.]
  • Till Eulenspiegel (ballet) Music by Richard Strauss; libretto by Vaslav Nijinsky, after Charles de Costersets and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; premiere on 23 October 1916, Manhattan Opera House, New York.
  • The Sleeping Princess (ballet in 4 acts) Music by Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky, partly re-orchestrated by Igor Stravinsky; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; original choreography by Marius Petipa, with additional dances by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 2 November 1921, Alhambra Theatre, London.
  • Aurora's Wedding (Le Mariage de la Belle au Bois Dormant) (ballet in 1 act) Music by Petr Ilich Tchaikovsky, partly re-orchestrated by Igor Stravinsky; sets by Alexandre Benois; costumes by Alexandre Benois, with additional costumes for the fairy tales by Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Marius Pet
  • Mavra (opera) Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by Boris Kochno, after Aleksandr Pushkin; sets and costumes by Léopold Survage; stage direction and choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 3 June 1922, Théatre National de L’Opéra, Paris.
  • Les Noces (ballet in 4 scenes) Music by Igor Stravinsky; sets and costumes by Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 13 June 1923, Théâtre de la Gaîté-Lyrique, Paris.
  • Le Médecin Malgré Lui (opera) Music by Charles Gounod, with new recitatives by Erik Satie; libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré, after Molière; sets and costumes by Alexandre Benois; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; stage direction by Alexandre Benois; premiere on 5 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.
  • Les Tentations de la Bergère, ou l'Amour Vainqueur (ballet in 1 act) Music by Michel de Montéclair, arranged and orchestrated by Henri Casadesus; sets, costumes, and curtain by Juan Gris; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 3 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. Unlike similar ballets, produced by Diaghilev that used commissioned scores, the composer for this ballet lived between 1667 and 1737.
  • Les Biches (ballet in 1 act with a song) Music by Francis Poulenc; sets, costumes, and curtain by Marie Laurencin; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 6 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.
  • Les Fâcheux (ballet in 1 act) Music by George Auric; libretto by Boris Kochno, after Molière; sets, costumes, and curtain by Georges Braque; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 19 January 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.
  • La Nuit sur le Mont Chauve (Night on Bare Mountain) (choreographic tableux) Music by Modest Mussorgsky; sets and costumes by Natalia Goncharova; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 6 April 1924, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.
  • Le Train Bleu (ballet in 1 act) Music by Darius Milhaud; libretto by Jean Cocteau; sets by Henri Laurens; costumes by Gabrielle (“Coco”) Chanel; curtain by Pablo Picasso; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska; premiere on 20 June 1924, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris.
  • Romeo and Juliet (ballet in 2 parts) Music by Constant Lambert; sets and costumes by Max Ernst and Joan Miró; choreography by Bronislava Nijinska, with an entr'acte by George Balanchine; premiere on 4 May 1926, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.