Heading home, a soldier encounters the devil and trades his fiddle for fortune.

Sound familiar? It’s the Faustian bargain as told in a Russian fairy tale, one that Igor Stravinsky set to music in 1918.

Stravinsky’s compact and charming music-drama, “The Soldier’s Tale,” will come to life July 15 in a jewel of a chamber concert at the First Baptist Church. It will be the opening Durango performance offered by Music in the Mountains 2016.

The one-hour work has been performed in Albuquerque by the Figueroa Music and Arts Project and will reprise most of the same musicians, narrator Toby Appel and three actor-dancers performing choreography by Patricia Dickinson-Wells of Dance Theatre Southwest. In addition, violinist Ida Kavafian and percussionist John Pennington will join the company.

A narrator sets up the story of a soldier who sells his soul, represented by his fiddle, to a schemer, the devil. Given a red-bound book that foretells the future, the man amasses great wealth but with consequences. Stravinsky punctuates the story with varying but recognizable musical styles – a march, a Spanish pasodoble, a Lutheran chorale, a tango and even a little jazz, which was a new form almost 100 years ago when the composer created this mini opera.

“The Soldier’s Tale” has been presented in Durango at least twice before, once in 1997 in the Community Concert Hall as part of Pennington’s Animas Music Festival. For those with vivid memories, Linda Mack made her dance debut as the devil, with Pennington as conductor and percussionist.

The first half of “Once Upon a Time” will be Tchaikovsky’s extraordinarily beautiful string sextet, “Souvenir de Florence.” The performance begins at 7 p.m. July 15 at First Baptist Church, 332 E. 11th St. Tickets are $39 and $15 and are available online at www.musicinthemountains.com or by calling 385-6820.