Fun and games with Carla Fracci, Genesia Rosato and George de la Peña

Jeux (Games) is the last work for orches­tra writ­ten by Claude Debussy. It was com­posed for Serge Diaghilev’s Bal­lets Russes with Vaslav Nijinsky’s cho­reo­graphy. Jeux was was not a suc­cess when premiered in 1913, but this was noth­ing com­pared to the recep­tion Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring received just two weeks later!

Her­bert Ross’ 1980 biopic Nij­in­sky recre­ated sev­eral of his bal­lets, includ­ing Jeux which, as pic­tured above, fea­tured Carla Fracci (left), the Royal Bal­let’s Gen­e­sia Ros­ato, and George de la Peña as Nijinsky.

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