“Astonish me!” theater producer Serge Diaghilev would sometimes challenge his collaborators at the Ballets Russes. And composers, stage designers, choreographers and dancers very often did just that.

If you were really somebody in Paris at the 1913 premiere of Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du printemps" ("The Rite of Spring"), you weren't just in the Theatre des Champs-Elysees. You were in the car ...

A Pavlova, a Nijinsky, a Picasso! These names, now generic for high artistic achievement, all once worked for a man whose name has also become generic, Diaghilev—the greatest impresario in the history ...

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It was in 1909 that Sergei Diaghilev stunned Paris with the first performances of his Ballets Russes, and today the It was in 1909 that Sergei Diaghilev stunned Paris with the first performances of ...

NEW YORK -- A hundred years have passed since Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes made its premiere in Paris on May 19, 1909. In honor of this historic debut, which signaled a renaissance in the art of ...

This is FRESH AIR. In 1909, the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev came to Paris with a company he called the Ballet Russe and created a sensation that lasted until Diaghilev's death 20 years later.

On what would have been his 145th birthday, Google celebrates the life and work of Russian visionary Sergei Diaghilev On what would have been his 145th birthday Friday, Google celebrates the life and ...

“Something different is afoot at the National Gallery,” said Julia Langley in DCist.com. In an exhibition that celebrates the groundbreaking work of the Ballets Russes and its founder, Serge Diaghilev ...

The most recent reassessment of the belle-epoque Russian impresario distills his life down to its aromatic essence. By Alexandra Jacobs When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...