Diaghilev
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Armed with a Blackwing and a Kum Wedge, I sat down to write and commanded my new pencil to, in the words of Diaghilev, astonish me.
From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2018
By commissioning Stravinsky for the 1910 season, no one could accuse Diaghilev of being sheepish with his choice of composer.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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