Review
`Superb biography... the definitive life of Diaghilev' -- Bee Wilson, Sunday Times
`Scheijen's portrait is drawn with a sharp nib' --Luke Jennings, Observer
`It's a fabulous, complicated, very sexy story and Sjeng Scheijen takes us through it with a steadying calm that fudges none of the outrage on or off stage' --Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express
'elegantly translated... a well-balanced, many-sided view of this most complex and exasperating of personalities' --Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review
`Reading this biography is as stimulating as plugging yourself into the national grid' --Frances Wilson, Sunday Times Best Biographies of 2009
'Magnificent...filled with extraordinary glamour' --Rupert Christiansen, Mail on Sunday
`Compelling'
-- Clement Crisp, Dancing Times
'a revelation... a remarkable achievement'
--Andrew Green, Classical Music Magazine
'A joy to handle and a lucid pleasure to read' --David Nice, BBC Music Magazine
`Scheijen's portrait is drawn with a sharp nib' --Luke Jennings, Observer
`It's a fabulous, complicated, very sexy story and Sjeng Scheijen takes us through it with a steadying calm that fudges none of the outrage on or off stage' --Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express
'elegantly translated... a well-balanced, many-sided view of this most complex and exasperating of personalities' --Rupert Christiansen, Literary Review
`Reading this biography is as stimulating as plugging yourself into the national grid' --Frances Wilson, Sunday Times Best Biographies of 2009
'Magnificent...filled with extraordinary glamour' --Rupert Christiansen, Mail on Sunday
`Compelling'
-- Clement Crisp, Dancing Times
'a revelation... a remarkable achievement'
--Andrew Green, Classical Music Magazine
'A joy to handle and a lucid pleasure to read' --David Nice, BBC Music Magazine
Book Description
A major new biography of Serge Diaghilev, founder of the Ballets Russes, who revolutionised ballet, bringing together composers like Stravinsky and Prokoviev, dancers and choreographers like Nijinsky and Balanchine and artists like Picasso, Matisse, Bakst and Goncharova. An impresario of all the arts, he made a huge contribution to the arts of the twentieth century.
