Diaghilev

American  

[dee-ah-guh-lef, dyah-gyi-lyif] / diˈɑ gəˌlɛf, ˈdyɑ gyɪ lyɪf /

noun

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

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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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Example Sentences

What the author gets at in every example, from Kokopelli petroglyphs to fragile jade flutes and the lush sets and experimental sounds of Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, is a common longing.

From The Wall Street Journal

“I am not a ballerina,” she once told Diaghilev.

From New York Times

Or is he more of an impresario — a figure like the failed artist and Ballet Russe founder Sergei Diaghilev, whose special genius was to convene other talents and to bring forth his vision through them?

From Washington Post

All eyes were on the stars of the evening, Stravinsky and Diaghilev.

From Washington Post

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