The Walter Toscanini Collection of research materials in dance: Elssler. 1839-1939.

Elssler, Fanny, 1810-1884

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Fanny Elssler (1810-1884) was an Austrian ballerina of the Romantic Period. She introduced theatricalized folk dance (character dance) into ballet. She was celebrated for her spirited, spectacular dancing and for her technique, especially her point work. Fanny Elssler died in Vienna on 27 November 1884....

Enters, Angna, 1897-1989

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Angna Enters (born 1897, Anita Enters) was a dancer, mime, and visual artist, performed solo productions such as “The Theater of Angna Enters,” “Pagan Greece,” and “Episodes” from 1924 through the end of the 1960s, most prolifically from 1924-1939, choreographing, designing, and performing all parts. (Enters is sometimes stated to have been born in 1907; this was the birthdate she used but she was born in 1897.) Enters was born in New York City and graduated from North Division High School in M...

Opéra de Paris.

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Smith, Carleton Sprague

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Coralli, Eugene, 1779-1854

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Bassi, Calisto

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Halperson, Maurice

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Wallmann, Margarethe, 1904-1992

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Toscanini, Walter, 1898-1971

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Cia Fornaroli was a prima ballerina, choreographer, teacher and director, and Walter Toscanini was a dance historian, collector and curator, primarily in Milan and New York. Lucia Fornaroli Toscanini (b Oct 16, 1888, Milan Italy; d Aug 16, 1954, New York, NY), wife of Walter Toscanini and daughter of Giovanni Fornaroli and Santina Volonté, better known as Cia Fornaroli, was a disciple of the Academy of Dance of Teatro alla Scala in Milan. Instructed by Adelaide Vignanò...

Prati, Giovanni, 1814-1884

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Elssler, Thérèse 1808-1878

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Wiener Staatsoper.

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The director of the opera from 1945 to 1954 was Franz Salmhofer. The item might conceivably have been intended for Egon Hilbert, who communicated with Alma about the celebration of the unveiling of the bust at the opera house's temporary quarters in 1948; from 1946 to 1953 Hilbert was the head of Austria's Federal Theater Administration, which oversaw the Vienna State Opera. From the description of Correspondence from Alma Mahler, ca. 1948. (University of Pennsylvania Library). World...