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This poster for Diaghilev's last season advertised an evening's performance of three ballets by the company on Tuesday, 7 May 1929, consisting of two established ballets choreographed by Michel Fokine from 1910, Carnaval and Scheherazade and the world premiere of <i>Le Bal </i>\n\n<i>Le Bal, </i>the ballet 'in two tableaux' by Boris Kochno with music by Vittorio Rieti, set and costumes by Giorgio di Chirico and choreography by George Balanchine. The dancers in <i>Carnival</i> were Lydia Sokolova, Lubov Tchernicheva, Dora Vadimova, Anton Dolin, Georges Balanchine, Nicholas Kremnev, Constantin Tsherkas and Jean Javinsky; in <i>Le Bal </i>Alexandra Danilova, Felia Doubrovska, Eugénie Lipkovska, Anton Dolin, Léon Wozikovsky, Serge Lifar, George Balanchine, and in <i>Schéhérazade </i>Lubov Tchernicheva, Lydia Sokolova, Vera Petrova, Dora Vadimova, Natalie Branitska, Léon Wozikovsky, Serge Grigoriev, Nicolas Kremnew, Jean Javinsky, Michel Fedorov, and the 'Artistes de la Danse'. The conductor was Marc-César Scotto, the ballet \n\nThe poster notes the 'high patronage' of the S.A.S (Son Altesse Sérénissime) Princesse Héréditaire de Monaco. In 1926 Prince Pierre enlisted the help of the press agent Elsa Maxwell to improve the image of the principality of Monaco, and agreed that financial sponsorship of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes would provide an opportunity to raise the national prestige of the Prince as well as the international prestige of the principality. With his wife Princess Charlotte, the couple inaugurated a new focus there on culture, as patrons of the arts.\n\nThe performance began at 9pm, and a ticket for an orchestra stalls seat for this evening, held in the collection of Harvard University, instructs patrons to arrive in good time because the doors to the auditorium would be closed before the start of each act.","physicalDescription":"Typograpic poster on white paper printed in red letterpress within a blue border, advertising Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes performing <i><i>Carnival,</i></i> <i>Le Bal </i>and <i>Shéhérazade</i> at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo, Tuesday 7 May 1929. 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