![]() ![]() Allegorically, balagan means chaos, confusion, disorder and by extension farce and fair. The Russian fairground tradition is supported, in particular, by the balagans: a term with multiple linguistic origins, but which here refers both to a fairground hut with a small balcony on the façade and to the entrepreneur who runs it. – work sheet and excerpts on the website of the Philarmonie de Paris Listen to excerpts from the music of the ballet Petrouchka: Russian and close to the hearts of the spectators, he somehow lays the foundations for the future generations of clowns and Augustes from this gigantic territory. A buffoon who has become a dancer, Petrouchka is not a clown, but his appearance, hat, necklace and bells, nevertheless refers to those of familiar silhouettes on trestles and rings in the 19th century. This diabolical chord creates a troubling analogy with the character Arlequin, also a comedic figure shrouded in sulphur. ![]() Composed of two augmented thirds, the chord contains the terrifying "triton", a three-tone gap between two notes, feared in musical composition since the emergence of music noted and designated as the mark of the Devil in the Middle Ages ( Diabolus in Musica). Stravinsky plays with this filiation and creates a very specific chord, conceived as a leitmotif, to announce the central character of the work. He is a buffoon, with a long nose, wearing a red tricorn, inspired by the figure of Pietro-Mira Pedrillo, an Italian buffoon at the court of Anna of Russia. Petrouchka, a nickname for Piotr, like Pierrot is for Pierre in French, is a character from the rayok, a puppet theatre whose origins date back to the 17th century. The setting, designed by Alexandre Benois for the creation of the ballet in June 1911 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, is structured by huts and stands where saltimbanques perform. Igor Stravinsky places the opening of his ballet Petrouchka at the heart of a fair held on the occasion of Maslenitsa. ![]()
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