Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes presented the company's fifth season, although their first in the new theatre, opening on May 15 with Igor Stravinsky's "The Firebird", Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade" (as choreographed by Michel Fokine), and the world premiere of Debussy's "Jeux" (with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and designs by Léon Bakst). Some in the audiences had been offended by the depiction on stage of a tennis game in "Jeux", but this was nothing compared to the reaction to the ritual sacrifice in Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" on May 29. Carl Van Vechten described the scene: