Ballet [ Dance, Music & Songs ]
… Image ‘Premieres danseuses and their admirers in the Green Room of the King's Theatre Opera House’,1822, Mary Evans Picture Library, 4220-21915208. Image Vignette from Thomas Rowlandson, ‘This is the House … slowly seeded and grown with the arrival of French dancers whose training and performance careers arose from the Paris Opera, established by Louis XIV in 1669 as the Académie d'Opéra. 1 British audiences showed distaste for the French … enflamed monied society’s appetite for ballet. His son, the popular dancer Armand Vestris was married to Londoner opera singer Elizabetta Lucia Bartolozzi. Even Princess Charlotte Augusta (1796-1817) was not immune to the popularity of …
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