This request by Diaghilev came after he had learned that Nijinska had staged Petipa's Swan Lake in Kiev, Ukraine in 1919.
It was also possible to see the actresses Marie Marquet, Edwige Feuillère and Cécile Sorel, the ballet masters Serge Lifar an Serge Diaghilev, the painter Foujita, and the Maharaja of Khapurtala, the Aga Khan.
On August 11, 2013, Dana Tai Soon Burgess Dance Company will perform a new dance work at The National Gallery of Art as part of their Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes Exhibit, organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum of London.
By her mid-twenties Revalles was a singer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève until the set and costume designer Léon Bakst enticed her to join the European tour of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in productions such as Cleopatra, Thamar and Scheherazade .
From 1905 through 1912 Astruc brought a long list of musical giants to Paris under the banner "Great Season of Paris", including an Italian season with Enrico Caruso and Australian soprano Nellie Melba in 1905, the creation of Salome under the baton of Richard Strauss in 1907, the Ballets Russes of Diaghilev in 1909, the Metropolitan Opera conducted by Arturo Toscanini in 1910, and the Le martyre de Saint Sébastien of Debussy by Gabriele D'Annunzio in 1911.
Pictures, dedicated to the Theatre: " Homage to Chaliapin ", 1993; triptych " Homage to Ballets Russians of Diaghilev ", 1997; " Homage to Nijinsky ", 2000–2001; " Serge Lifar in Ikare ", 2005;
She was a close friend of Oscar Wilde, who dedicated his play A Woman of No Importance to her; other celebrated friends included Nellie Melba, whose success in London was largely due to Lady Ripon's support, Nijinsky and Diaghilev.
In London in 1948 he did set design and saw the work of Balanchine, the Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and Margot Fonteyn.
Then, at the opening of Richard Buckle's Diaghilev exhibition, an exasperated Rothenstein, taunted by Cooper, lashed out and knocked the man's glasses off.
Beginning in 1909, Bakst worked mostly as a stage-designer, designing sets for Greek tragedies, and, in 1908, he made a name for himself as a scene-painter for Diaghilev with the Ballets Russes.
Sudeikin designed the sets and costumes for Diaghilev's production of La tragédie de Salomé by Florent Schmitt in 1913, and assisted in the execution of Nicholas Roerich's designs for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring the same year.
He called Diaghilev "a decadent cheerleader" in print and Mir iskusstva "the courtyard of the lepers" (an image borrowed from Victor Hugo's novel Notre-Dame de Paris).
Nouvel fled the Soviet Union in 1919 and worked as secretary and factotum for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes.