Odyssey Festival Orchestra: Riot at the Theatre

Odyssey Festival Orchestra recreates the programme and atmosphere surrounding the momentous 1913 premiere of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.

Presented in Paris by Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes alongside popular favourites, the revolutionary work provoked uproar among audience members, with some condemning the performance and others hailing it as a work of genius.

The evening would later be celebrated as a defining moment in the birth of modernism.