Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev

Standard Name: Diaghilev, Sergei Pavlovich

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Elizabeth Jane Howard
Jane Howard's mother, Katharine M. Howard , née Somervell, the intellectual of her very musical family, had trained as a ballet dancer and had a brief career with Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes under the name...
Friends, Associates Violet Trefusis
Violet Keppel (later VT ) became acquainted, initially through her mother 's connections, with Diaghilev , Nijinsky , and Russian prima ballerina Tamara Karsavina , as well as authors George Moore and Hugh Walpole .
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Occupation Una Troubridge
By the age of sixteen, UT had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave...
Travel Nina Hamnett
Gellibrand (NH gives only her surname) was the daughter of a Russian mother and an English father who shipped timber for pit-props from the northern forests.
Hooker, Denise. Nina Hamnett: queen of bohemia. Constable and Company Limited, 1986.
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Most of NH 's two months of...

Timeline

4 June 1910: Schéhérazade (with music by Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov)...

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4 June 1910

Schéhérazade (with music by Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov ) was first performed in Paris by Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes or Russian Ballet .
Laver, James, and Christina Probert. Costume and Fashion: A Concise History. Thames and Hudson, 1982.
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Yarwood, Doreen. Five Hundred Years of Technology in the Home. B. T. Batsford, 1983.
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Angeloglou, Maggie. A History of Make-up. Studio Vista, 1970.
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6 March 1911: The Ballets Russes gave the final performance...

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6 March 1911

The Ballets RussesSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev gave the final performance of their first season (which included Le Dieu Bleu, L'Oiseau de Feu, L'Après-Midi d'un Faune, and Prince Igor) at Covent Garden Opera House , in London.
Drogheda, Charles Garrett Ponsonby Moore, Earl of et al. The Covent Garden Album: 250 Years of Theatre, Opera, and Ballet. Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1981.
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11, 14, and 23 July 1913: Diaghilev's Ballets Russes brought Igor Stravinsky's...

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11, 14, and 23 July 1913

Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes brought Igor Stravinsky 's Le Sacre du Printemps to London.
Schouvaloff, Alexander. The Art of Ballets Russes. Yale University Press in association with the Wadsworth Atheneum, 1997, http://U of A, Ruth N Flr 4.
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22 July 1919: Manuel de Falla's ballet set in eighteenth-century...

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22 July 1919

Manuel de Falla 's ballet set in eighteenth-century Spain, The Three Cornered Hat, with sets and costumes designed by Pablo Picasso , premiered at the Alhambra Theatre in London, performed by the Ballets RussesSergei Pavlovich Diaghilev .
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
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Boeck, Wilhelm, and Jaime Sabartés. Picasso. Thames and Hudson, 1955.
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