# Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Marina Frolova-Walker
- Year: 2019
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design, Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/diaghilev-and-ballets-russes)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In this lecture we follow his early years, when he published The World of Art, a provocative Russian journal, exhibited Russian visual art in Paris, and then brought Russian music there, culminating in his production of Musorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov.

## Lectures

1. [Exporting Russia: Diaghilev’s Beginnings](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/f4abe8ee7870) (YouTube)
2. [The Ballets Russes: Courting the Exotic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/3298cd1a88db) (YouTube)
3. [The Rite of Spring: A Failure and A Triumph](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/a6955f7a5127) (YouTube)
4. [The Ballets Russes: Playing with the Past](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/7becc430518b) (YouTube)
5. [The Ballets Russes: Turning French](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/610110d9ad98) (YouTube)
6. [Diaghilev and Prokofiev: Return to Emotion](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-diaghilev-and-ballets-russes/8319a1948a01) (YouTube)