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The Rite of Spring, a Rare card
The Rite of Spring is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 84
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 184
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 240,000
Ranked #549 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The Rite of Spring quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Rite of Spring card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
It was written for the ____ Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
Answer
1910s. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich. From the The Rite of Spring article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Antonín Dvořák. Antonín Dvořák 320,000 · The Rite of Spring 240,000 · Anu 180,000 · Mary Baker Eddy 140,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company, the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
- When first performed at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées on 29 May 1913, the avant-garde nature of the music and choreography caused a sensation.
- Many have called the first-night reaction a "riot" or "near-riot", though this wording did not come about until reviews of later performances in 1924, over a decade later.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Rite of Spring article was read about 240,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 84 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, The Rite of Spring (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Nicholas Roerich, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
