Stravinsky was one of the 20th century’s great tastemakers. His new works generallycame as a surprise – and few more so than The Fairy’s Kiss, a ballet based on music by Tchaikovsky. The Romantic master was, at the time, firmly old hat. He seemed to embody all that Modernist Stravinsky eschewed: decadence, lyricism, sentimentality. And yet, when the work was unveiled at the Paris Opéra – performed by former Ballet Russes dancer Ida Rubinstein’s new company – it eluded these criticisms. Stravinsky, it seems, had taken the old hat and made it vintage …