By her mid-twenties Revalles was a singer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève until the set and costume designer Léon Bakst enticed her to join the European tour of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in productions such as Cleopatra, Thamar and Scheherazade.

[1] In January 1916, Diaghilev brought his troupe to New York for a two-week engagement at the Century Theatre and a four-week run at the Metropolitan Opera House.

Nijinsky, the star of the Ballets Russes, debut had been delayed for several weeks while negotiations were afoot to release him from an Austrian prisoner of war camp.

Flore Revalles is a person all soft curves and long sinuous lines with dark Egyptian coloring and all the attributes of a well regulated vampire.

At first the whole court with the queen stand aghast and astounded at the presumption of the slave; but, swayed by a whim, yields to him for a brief and delirious hour and then kills him with a strange and terrible poison.