セルゲイ・ディアギレフ
Ballet impresario and producer Sergei Diaghilev staged two exotic ballets for the Ballets Russes: "Cléopâtre" in 1909 and "Scheherazade" in 1910, both great successes with the Parisian public. He hoped that "Le Dieu bleu" (another exotic ballet) would be equally successful.