Around Moscow
MOSCOW. (Anatoly Korolyov, member of the...
together with all of the Paris journalists, who soon filled the newspapers with reports of the Chatelet renovation and interviews with Diaghilev. Having given countless interviews, Diaghilev orchestrated Paris"s anticipation to a fever pitch and gouged sky-high prices for the boxes, while keeping the balconies and galleries cheap.Diaghilev"s charm was so great that he was befriended by the entire Paris elite of the time, headed up by the kings of esthetic trends, Jean Cocteau and Jacques-Emile Blanche.
But one thing was to orchestrate great PR, and quite another to prove one"s claim to fame.
In the first fateful day of the tour, Diaghilev showed Paris and the world a never-before-seen spectacle - the ballets "Le Pavillon d"Armide," "Prince Igor" (with scenes of Polovets dances) and the ballet suite "The Feast." On stage at the Chatelet, Tamara Karsavina, Alexandra Baldina, Vera Caralli, Sofia Fyodorova and the genius who overwhelmed everyone, Vaslav Nijinsky,
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