Introduction to the Series. List of Plates. Acknowledgements. Foreword. Prologue: Ruins against the Sky. 1 St Petersburg. 2 Antigone. 3 Salome. 4 Cleopatre. 5 Scheherazade. 6 Artists' Model. 7 St Sebastien. 8 The Producer. 9 War and Revelution. 10 Cracks in the Mask. 11 Milan. 12 La Dame aux Camelias. 13 Nijinsky. 14 The 1928 Season. 15 Covent Garden 1931. 16 The Paris Opera 1934. 17 World War Two. 18 Vence. 19 Whispers in the Wings. Chronology. Principal Sources. Index.