A decade later, casting around for a librettist with whom to craft a weighty ancient tragedy in Latin (Oedipus Rex), Stravinsky approached Jean Cocteau, who had just penned modern stage versions ...

Stravinsky's three surviving children talk about their father and there are contributions from the late Madame Vera Stravinsky, his music associate Robert Craft, Marie Rambert, Balanchine ...

based on Sophocles’ play to a libretto by the composer’s surrealist buddy John Cocteau, is coming from. “I think Stravinsky gives us permission to treat the piece like an artefact,” argues ...

Stravinsky: Myths & Rituals is a five-concert series presented by the Philharmonia Orchestra, exploring many facets of Stravinsky's music. In a new broadcast partnership, BBC Radio 3 is relaying ...

Next On Air 17:30 Opera on 3 View full schedule For much of his life, Stravinsky was in love with Vera Sudeikina; they met in 1921, finally marrying in 1940 after the death of Stravinsky's wife ...