El pájaro de fuego

Ballet with music by Ígor Stravinski, premiered in Paris in 1910 by Serguéi Diáguilev's Ballets Rusos, based on a Russian folk tale. It is programmed at the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona.

El pájaro de fuego (L'Oiseau de feu) is a ballet with music by Ígor Stravinski, composed in 1910 on commission from Serguéi Diáguilev for the Ballets Rusos. It premiered in Paris with choreography by Mijaíl Fokin and is inspired by Russian folk tales about a bird with luminous plumage that Prince Iván tries to capture.

The score is one of the most frequently performed orchestral works in the twentieth-century repertoire, and concert suites derived from it are played without the dance. Its structure of contrasting sections, with slow passages and episodes of great rhythmic intensity, has made it a regular title in symphonic programmes.

The concert takes place at the Palau de la Música Catalana, a modernist building by Lluís Domènech i Montaner, inaugurated in 1908 and declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 1997. According to its presentation, the venue hosts exhibitions and cultural activities.