The Rite of Spring been "incomparable: with the exception of a few places, everything was as I wanted it". The premiere was followed by five further performances of "The Rite" at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the last on 13 June. Although these occasions were relatively peaceful, something of the mood of the first night remained; the composer Puccini, who attended the second performance on 2 June, described the choreography as ridiculous and the music cacophonous—"the work of a madman. The public hissed, laughed – and applauded". Stravinsky, confined to his bed by typhoid fever, did not join the company when it went to London
Rite of Spring (film) also remembered for "a furious apocalyptic montage that links Christ's death to the violence and lunacy of the Vietnam era". Rite of Spring (film) Rite of Spring (Portuguese: Acto da Primavera) is a 1963 Portuguese film directed by Manoel de Oliveira, his second feature. The poet and director António Reis was the film's assistant director, and his influence can be felt deeply throughout it. (The film was included in the film program "The School of Reis" in 2012.) The inhabitants of Curalha, a small village in western Portugal, perform the Passion of Jesus every year according to text from about