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Photograph of Michel Fokine as Prince Ivan and Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird in
‘L’Oiseau de Feu’, 1910. Music by Igor Stravinsky; libretto by Michel Fokine; sets by Aleksandr
Golovin, with additional costumes by Léon Bakst; premiere on 25 June
1910, Théâtre National de l’Opéra, Paris.
/ src: L. of Congress:
Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev
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Emil Otto Hoppé :: Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird in ‘L’Oiseau de Feu’, London, England, 1911 / src: E.O. Hoppé
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Cutting from a scrapbook created by Gilbert Barker: photograph of
Tamara Karsavina in the title role of Fokine’s The Firebird [L’Oiseau de
feu], 1910.
Karsavina’s costume was designed by Léon Bakst; it presented her in a
tall plumed headdress adorned with long plaits, wearing ‘harem-style’
trousers. Photo: Bertram Park / src: Royal Ballet School
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Emil Otto Hoppé :: Tamara Karsavina as the Firebird and Adolph
Bolm as Ivan Tsarevich in ‘L’Oiseau de Feu’ (‘The Firebird’), London,
1911
/ src: eohoppe.photoshelter
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