Word: petrushka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Petrushka was the beginning-a master's tale of an individual tragedy made fittingly little to suit a puppet...
...Petrushka, curious, inimitable ballet-child of Igor Stravinsky, was given last week for the first time this season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Poor Petrushka, superbly done by Adolf Bolm, danced and danced, wriggled and writhed, beat his breast, accomplished nothing, became in the end just the pitiful ghost of the brave puppet he was. Florence Rudolph was the ballerina; Giuseppe Bonfiglio, the dashing Moor who won her; Serge Sondeikine, the author of the dazzling bright sets; Stravinsky, the genius in back of it all, Stravinsky at his best-sure, reckless, rhythmical, vivid...
...Petrushka, a ballet about a silly, tragic rag doll with a soul, by Igor Stravinsky, was revived last week, at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. There was only one Russian in the cast. He, Adolph Bolm, took the part of the sawdust Caliban, capered foolishly, pathetically, to his special tune- a fanfare for two trumpets a minor second apart. Rosina Galli was the limber ballerina. At the end of the performance, Mr. Stravinsky was discovered to be present, hailed before the curtain, presented with an overstuffed floral wreath, according to Metropolitan tradition...