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Diaghilev

American  
[dee-ah-guh-lef, dyah-gyi-lyif] / diˈɑ gəˌlɛf, ˈdjɑ gjɪ ljɪf /

noun

  1. Sergei Pavlovich 1872–1929, Russian ballet producer.


Diaghilev British  
/ ˈdjaɡɪlif /

noun

  1. Sergei Pavlovich (sɪrˈɡjej ˈpavləvitʃ). 1872–1929, Russian ballet impresario. He founded (1909) and directed (1909–29) the Ballet Russe in Paris, introducing Russian ballet to the West

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This collection’s pink and white aquarelle palette evoked the vibrant style of the Ballets Russes as envisioned by Léon Bakst and Sergei Diaghilev.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 23, 2024

This engendered suspicion among some critics that they were not “pure” artists, notwithstanding the fact that Picasso had worked with dance impresario Serge Diaghilev.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2022

Once, traveling in Italy, he wandered into the funeral of Sergei Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes in Venice.

From New York Times • May 17, 2019

One such enterprise, as Julie Kavanagh recounts in her 2007 life of Nureyev, was to be written by Edward Albee and directed by Tony Richardson, with Paul Scofield as Serge Diaghilev.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 26, 2019

Stravinsky’s first spell of collaboration with Diaghilev comprised three ballets: The Firebird in 1910, Petrushka in 1911 and The Rite of Spring in 1913.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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