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Ballet comes of age with Sergei Diaghilev

It was the flamboyant, unscrupulous impresario who really dragged the ‘childish business’ of ballet to artistic maturity in the 20th century

Sergei Diaghilev. [Alamy]

  • Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World

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    Faber, pp. 384, £25

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