BAKLANOFF, GEORGES

(1882), a singer; 6. in Petrograd, Ru ia. He was educated at Petrograd Univ., graduating 1904; studied singing under Vittorio Vanzo. First appearance in Rubenstein’s Demon, 1905; appeared later in London at Covent Garden, and in Berlin, Vienna, Moscow, Petrograd, Monte Carlo, Budapest, Stockholm, Munich, etc. Came to America, 1909; first with Boston Opera Co., and later with Metropolitan Opera Co. Became meee pet Chicago Opera A ociation, (1886), Ru ian painter and decorative artist; educated in Petrograd, later studying art; went to Paris under the patronage of a Ru ian Grand Duche , subsequently returning to Ru ia and working in Moscow. Painted conventional portraits, several examples being in the Tretiakoff Gallery, Moscow. His political ideas displeased the authorities and he settled in Paris in 1906, where he soon attracted attention as a designer. On the visit of the Imperial Ru ian Ballet to Paris in 1909, Bakst became famous through his designs for the settings of the ballets Scheherazade and Cleopatre, which succe es were followed in 1912 by L’Apres-Midi dun Faune, Helene de Sparte and St. Sebastien, and 1913 by La Pisanella. Made Off icier de la Legion d’Honneur. Member of the Ru ian Academy of Beaux Arts. The ballet of Orientale was staged in New York in 1914 with Anna Pavlowa in the leading role. Bakst’s designs are characterized by remarkable richne and color brilliancy, and his drawing, though conventional, is highly individualized, the whole demonstrating his extraordinary powers of imagination and invention. Published in 1910 in the Nouvelle Revue in Paris Les Problemes de l’ Art Nouveau. He visited the United States in 1922-3.