All aflame: Edward Watson as Ivan Tsarevitch and Yasmine Naghdi as the titular avian in The Firebird, Royal Ballet. Perhaps surprisingly, The Firebird was the standout performance of the evening.

Forget the flowing scarlet feathers you picture when someone mentions The Firebird. Ballet Arizona opens its intriguing take on the classic Russian ballet this week – with a futuristic twist. It’s ...

MIAMI — George Balanchine’s “Firebird” has flown the coop. His compressed rendition of the ballet—the first ever with a Russian storyline that Michel Fokine originally choreographed for the Ballets ...

It took some doing, but Miami City Ballet finally got an elusive bird to leave its nest in Manhattan and fly down south. “So this wonderful ballet with such rich history and extraordinary choreography ...

The flash of a firebird, a family sent into a spin and a classical ballet explosion. Michel Fokine’s The Firebird with Igor Stravinsky’s music is a ground-breaking classic of the early 20th-century ...