The most famous ballet impresario of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century. His company, the Ballet Russes, premiered the
original productions of Stravinsky's "The Firebird", "Petrouchka" and
"Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring), as well as the ballet
versions of Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" and
Rimsky-Korsakov's "Scheherazade".