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View Basket Proceed To Checkout CLOSE 0000 * Home * Non-fiction * Classical Music * Diaghilev’s Empire Faber Members get 10% off their first order DIAGHILEV’S EMPIRE Rupert Christiansen A freshly researched and challenging reassessment of a unique phenomenon, exploring passionate conflicts and outsize personalities in a story embracing triumph and disaster. 3 in stock Quantity: 123 Add to cart £25£21 Quantity: 1 1 1 2 3 Add to Basket Join Faber Members for 10% off your first order. Format Hardback ISBN 9780571348015 Date Published 15.09.2022 Delivery All orders are sent via Royal Mail and are tracked: choose from standard or premium delivery. Summary Serge Diaghilev was the Russian impresario who is often said to have invented the modern art form of ballet. Commissioning such legendary names as Nijinsky, Fokine, Stravinsky, and Picasso, this intriguingly complex genius produced a series of radically original art works that had a revolutionary impact throughout the western world.Off stage and in its wake came scandal and sensation, as the great artists and mercurial performers involved variously collaborated, clashed, competed while falling in and out of love with each other on a wild carousel of sexual intrigue and temperamental mayhem. The Ballets Russes not only left a matchless artistic legacy – they changed style and glamour, they changed taste, and they changed social behaviour. The Ballets Russes came to an official end after many vicissitudes with Diaghilev’s abrupt death in 1929. But the achievements of its heroic prime had established a paradigm that would continue to define the terms and set the standards for the next. Published to mark the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Diaghilev’s birth, Rupert Christiansen – leading critic and self-confessed ‘incurable balletomane’ – presents this freshly researched and challenging reassessment of a unique phenomenon, exploring passionate conflicts and outsize personalities in a story embracing triumph and disaster. Critic Reviews [Diaghilev] is of course the star of this immensely readable and exhaustively researched exploration of a phenomenon that gripped the world for 20 years until Diagilev's death in 1929 ... most delightful of all are the vivid portraits Christiansen paints of the dramatis personae ...[Christiansen] writes about his subject with such descriptive flair and affectionate animation that its very essence leaps off the page. Debra Craine, Times Book of the Week Critic Reviews Gripping . . . bursting with extraordinary characters and anecdotes – a Who’s Who of early 20th century European artists . . . Diaghilev’s Empire may not be the first biography to tackle this mercurial genius, but it feels as glitteringly modern as its subject deserves. Christiansen, a self-confessed “incurable balletomane, knows every anecdote and foible you could wish to hear about some of the most significant cultural creators of the early 20th century. But his skill is to take his readers back to Paris in 1905 and make them feel not merely that they are witnessing the birth of a new art form, but one that it was imperative to be part of. Sunday Telegraph (5 stars*****) Critic Reviews The whole thing adds up to an extraordinary tale, enthrallingly told. Do read it. Tim Ashley, Gramophone Magazine Critic Reviews A riveting account of a visionary who, for all his many faults, truly did make himself indispensable. Written with sympathy and wit, the book is judiciously researched; but, more crucially, it draws on a lifetime of balletomania, giving readers the benefit of exceptional range. It is also a delicious read into the bargain. Spectator Critic Reviews Sublime art leaps from great showmanship in this vibrant chronicle of early 20th-century ballet... a stimulating recreation of a cultural watershed. ' Publishers Weekly Critic Reviews Christiansen brings his usual elegant prose, gift for insight and ability to find intriguing detail to a superb study of the impresario [Sergei Diaghilev], one that involves scandal and sensation as well as artistic excellence. Independent RupertChristiansen Rupert Christiansen is The Spectator’s dance critic. He was previously dance critic for The Mail on Sunday from 1995-2020, and has written on dance-focused subjects for many publications in the UK and USA, including Vogue, Vanity Fair, Harper’s and Queen, The Observer, Daily Telegraph, The Literary Review, Dance Now and Dance Theatre Journal. 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