has written poems based on Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of Animals." He will read the poems when the National Symphony Orchestra performs the music at the Kennedy Center on Sunday.

Lions, swans, donkeys and… pianists? Here are all 14 movements of The Carnival of the Animals, and what they’re about. The French composer Camille Saint-Saëns took himself quite seriously. So ...

The show closes with the headlined ballet, Christopher Wheeldon's colorful theatrical production "Carnival of the Animals." "It's a story of a young boy who spends the night in the New York Museum ...

This tone poem by Sibelius from 1895, tells the tale of a mystical swan, running around the island of the dead. Saint-Saëns famously sets The Swan, from his Carnival of the Animals, as a solo cello, ...

This summer, join the BBC Proms with some fun, creative activities inspired by The Carnival of the Animals ... or create your own fantastical animal poetry. Once you've done that share your ...

Joanna Lumley is joining up with the London Mozart Players for a special online performance of Saint-Saëns’s The Carnival of the Animals. The actress will be narrating new poetry, written by one of ...

In San Diego Ballet’s new production of “Carnival of the Animals,” there is a lion, a tiger and lots of ‘Oh, mys!’ Though artistic director Javier Velasco has staged the kid-friendly ...