Music: Igor Stravinsky.
Choreography: Michel Fokine.
Plot: Michel Fokine.
Sets and costumes: Alexander Golovine and Léon
Bakst.
Premiere: on June 25, 1910 by the Ballets Russes in Paris (Opéra Garnier).
Dancers at the premiere: Tamara Karsavina, Vera Fokina, Mikhail Fokine, Bulgakov.
Choreography and plot: Maurice Béjart.
Premiered in 1970 by the Paris Opera Ballet in Paris. Dancers at the premiere: Michaël Denard (the Firebird), Jean-Pierre Franchetti (the Phoenix), Jean Guizerix, Jacques Garnier, Brigitte Lefèvre, Norbert Schmucki, Pierette Mallarte, Richard Duquesnoy.
Bertrand Courtot de Bouteiller in this ballet in 1993 (picture of the
New-York International Ballet competition)