Le Coq d’or

Le Coq d’or was billed in Paris as a “story-fable-opera” in three tableaux. Its libretto by Vladimir Ivanovitch Bielsky was based upon a composition by Alexander Pushkin , and its score was the work of Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. It had its world premiere at the Imperial Opera of Moscow on 7 October 1909, and it was performed at the Garnier Palace for the first time on 24 May 1914 by Serge Diaghilev ’s Ballets russes in a presentation wherein a singer and a dancer interpreted the same role. Michel…