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Hit parade: in 1981, a David Hockney-designed French triple bill became one of the biggest hits of the John Dexter era at the Metropolitan Opera. How will the Met recapture its magic in revival?
In 1917 the young dilettante Jean Cocteau received a commission from Sergei Diaghilev that sounded more like a dare: "Astonish me." Known in those days as "The Frivolous Prince" (the title of his first book of poems), Cocteau had not yet accomplished that much, but he knew a lot of the right people and he had ideas. He proceeded to write a scenario for a ballet that would combine the choreography of Leonide Massine, a score by Erik Satie and sets and costumes by Pablo Picasso. Parade did more than astonish; it outraged its first audience, in May 1917, and set off a brawl on a scale not seen since Le Sacre du Printemps four years before.
"Let's be vulgar," Cocteau ...
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