The International Dagilev Festival aims to support and develop the traditions of the outstanding impresario and propagandist of Russian culture Sergey Pavlovich Diaghilev.

It is far from accidental that it was the Perm Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after them. P.I. Tchaikovsky initiated the first Diaghilev festival in Russia.

Perm is the city in which Sergei Diaghilev spent his childhood, in which there is the world's only house-museum of the legendary impresario. The building of the Perm Theater was built thanks to the financial support of the Diaghilevs.

A distinctive feature of the Perm festival is not only the venue, but also its multi-genre nature. The diverse activities of Sergei Diaghilev, associated with the opera and ballet theater, music, visual arts, publishing, is a structural model of the festival and is implemented as a complex of artistic events.

In accordance with the concept of the festival - “a peculiar reflection of the“ Russian Seasons ”by Sergey Diaghilev in the mirror of time” (Vedomosti) - modern unique projects in a wide variety of arts meet the art of the first third of the 20th century, the era to which S. P’s creative achievements belong. Diaghilev.

The festival program includes world premieres of opera and ballet performances, a panorama of performances of modern dance troupes, art exhibitions, concerts of symphonic, chamber, organ, jazz music, a retrospective of feature films, and photo exhibitions.