Description
Featuring an eight-page gallery of full-color illustrations, here’s a major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder and impresario of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionized ballet by bringing together composers such as Stravinsky and Prokofiev, dancers and choreographers such as Nijinsky and Karsavina, Fokine and Balanchine, and artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Bakst, and Goncharova.
An accomplished, flamboyant impresario of the entire arts, Diaghilev was a legendary figure. Growing up in a minor noble circle of relatives in remote Perm, he would grow to be a central figure within the artistic worlds of Paris, London, Berlin, and Madrid throughout the golden age of up to date art. He lived through bankruptcy, war, revolution, and exile. Furthermore he lived openly as a homosexual and his liaisons, such a lot famously with Nijinsky, and his turbulent friendships with Stravinsky, Coco Chanel, Prokofiev, and Jean Cocteau gave his life an exceptionally dramatic quality. Scheijen’s magnificent biography, according to extensive research in little known archives, especially in Russia, brings fully to life a complex and powerful personality with boundless creative energy.
A New York Times Editor’s Choice
Ballet Dancers-Russia-Biography
Impresarios
Diaghiler, Serge, 1872-1929
Biography
Sjeng Scheijen