Petrouchka

[puh-troosh-kuh]

noun

1. a ballet suite (1911) by Stravinsky.

Example Sentences

The films were distinct: Rebecca Zlotowski’s recut of her 2016 movie “Planetarium” for “Firebird”; an extended fashion ad of questionable sexual politics by Bertrand Mandico for “Petrouchka”; and a take on the “Rite,” by Evangelia Kranioti, that treated the music’s savagery so literally and tastelessly that it included Indigenous Brazilian imagery, drug usage among queer homeless youth and bloody violence against a transgender person.

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There was provocation even at the low point, “Ballets Russes,” a concert triple bill of Stravinsky’s scores for the Ballets Russes — “The Firebird,” “Petrouchka” and “The Rite of Spring” — accompanied by three films and screened in the cavernous Stadium de Vitrolles, in the hills south of Aix.

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The “Petrouchka” struggled to define its episodic style clearly, and flattened its layers of unsettling counterpoint as if polishing over them in one stroke.

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It might have seemed curious to include this astringent Neo-Classical score alongside the teeming “Petrouchka” and still-shocking “Sacre.”

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Thursday’s affair is all Stravinsky, with “Pétrouchka,” “The Rite of Spring” and — at nearly the same time as you can hear it a few blocks north at the Philharmonic — the Violin Concerto.

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