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French-born Jean Baptiste Lande founded the St. Petersburg Ballet School.
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Filippo Beccari organized a dancing school at the Moscow Orphanage in 1764 and its students performed at the Petrovsky Theatre, a predecessor of the of the Bolshoi, until 1784
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Catherine II established the Directorate of the Imperial Theatres
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Charles Didelot came to St. Petersburg and did much to raise the standars of Russia dancing.
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The premiere of Gioacchino Rossini's "William Tell" where they used the curtain to prepare scenic wonders, hidden from the audience eyes, and then unveil.
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The premiere of Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le Diable at the Paris Opera in 1831 was a tremendous success, despite of all the catastrophes that happened that night at the stage.
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Dr. Louis Veron became director of the Paris Opera
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Choreography by Filipo Taglioni for his daughter Marie Taglioni in 1832.
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Filippo Taglioni's The Revolt in the Harem may be the world's first ballet about emancipation of women.
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In Copenhagen,1836, August Bournonville created his own version of La Sylphide to new music by Herman Severin Lovenskjold. Starring Lucile Grahn.
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Elssler specialities were sparkling solos inspired by folk dances. In 1836 she performed "La Cachucha" in Jean Coralli's Le Diable Boiteux.
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Carlo Blasis was appointed director of the Royal Academy of Dance at La Sacala in Milan.
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Fanny Elssler's solo the "Cracovienne" in Joseph Mazilier's La Gypsy.
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Perrot created ballets in St. Petersburg in the 1840's anf 1850's.
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The premier of "Giselle" at the Paris Opera, choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot.
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During this period of time, he worked at the Her Majesty's Theatre where he produced some of his best ballets. Her Majesty's Theatre, under Benjamin Lumley's management, briefly rivaled the Paris Opera as a dance center.
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"Esmeralda" is an adaptation of Victo Hugo's novel, Notre Dame de Paris or The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
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Lumley, manager of Her Majesty's Theatre, came up with the grand idea of having the four great ballerinas Marie Taglioni, Carlotta Grissi, Marie Cerrito, and Lucille Grahn, danced together in the same ballet.
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Marius Petipa was invited to be "premier danseur" in St. Petersburg.
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Blasis taught in Moscow from 1861 to 1864
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In 1869, with the departure of Saint-Leon, Petipa was placed in full charge of the St. Petersburg ballet.
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Arthur Saint-Leon, Cerrito's husband, choreographed the period's last great ballet Coppelia, the same year of his death. With a beautiful score by Leo Delibes that included the first balletic use of the czardas, a hungarian folk dance.
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During this year the Franco-Prussian War broke out, Paris was hemmed in and the Paris Opera closed. Saint_leon died of exhaustion and Bozzacchi, ballerina that characterized Swanilda in Coppelia, died of a fever on her seventeenth birthday.
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Ballet was diminished to no more than light entertainment
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Luigi Mazotti was the leading Italian choreographer of the late nineteenth century. Mazotti's greatest success was "Excelsior", exemplifying the era's faith in science and progress.
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"The Sleeping Beaty is Petipa's most opulent surviving work.
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The first production of "The Nutcracker" was choreograph by Ivanov.
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Carlotta Zambelli made her debut at the Paris Opera in 1894. She reigned at the Opera untill 1930, when she retired to become head of the Opera Ballet School.
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the complete ballet of the "Swan Lake" by Marius Petopa and Lev Ivanov, was staged. With music of Tchaikovsky.
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Alexander Gorsky went to Moskow to work with the Bolshoi Ballet.
