Rosina Galli (dancer)

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Rosina Galli

Rosina Galli (1892 – April 30, 1940) was an Italian

Prima ballerina at La Scala Theatre Ballet,[2] and the Chicago Ballet, she was also the première danseuse at the Teatro di San Carlo and the Metropolitan Opera.[3]

Biography

Galli (1920)

Galli was born in Naples, where her father was a lawyer. She studied dance at the Teatro di San Carlo's ballet school, becoming the company's première danseuse at the age of 14.[4] When she was offered the première danseuse position at La Scala Theatre Ballet, the family moved to Milan. She debuted in 1910, at the age of eighteen, dancing in Pietro Micca and Ballo Excelsior of Luigi Manzotti.

In 1911, her father and two brothers escorted Galli to

pirouettes, continuing to dance there until 1931.[2] Her partner at the Met was Giuseppe Bonfiglio.[7] Her studies in America were under Luigi Albertieri.[8]

In 1919, she began teaching dance at the Met, also serving as ballet mistress until 1935.[6] As a teacher, she applied the strict program from her days at La Scala, teaching the Cecchetti method.[9] Helen Tamiris, who formed the School of American Dance in 1930, was a pupil under Galli.[10] Her expanded responsibilities included choreography, and in that respect, Galli is credited for over 100 offerings at the Met,[11] such as Carmen (1924),[12] La traviata (1925),[13] and Merry Mount (1934).[14]

It was at the Met where Galli met her future husband, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, former superintendent at La Scala and director of the Met since 1908. Initially she was his mistress;[15][16] they married in 1930 at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Jersey City, New Jersey.[17] When her husband retired in 1935, the couple returned to Italy, residing at a villa on Lake Maggiore.[18] She died in Milan on April 30, 1940. Gatti, 23 years older, died the following September.

  • Galli (1919)
    Galli (1919)
  • Italian dancer and choreographer Rosina Galli
    Italian dancer and choreographer Rosina Galli
  • Giuseppe Bonfiglio and Rosina Galli in costume for the Polovtsian Dances in Borodin's "Prince Igor " 1915
    Giuseppe Bonfiglio and Rosina Galli in costume for the Polovtsian Dances in Borodin's "Prince Igor " 1915

References

  1. ^ Opera News. Metropolitan Opera Guild. 1962. p. 278.
  2. ^
    ISBN 978-1-135-58333-0
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  3. ^ Galli, Rosina (July 1919). "My Life as a Ballet-Dancer". The Forum: 11–20.
  4. ^ "Seventeen-Year-Old Dancer Delights Operagoers" (PDF). The New York Times. 12 November 1911. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  5. ^ Chujoy, Anatole; Manchester, P W (1967). The Dance Encyclopedia. New York: Simon and Schuster. p. 394.
  6. ^
    ISBN 978-0-8153-0380-0
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  7. ISBN 978-0-19-512308-1
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  8. ^ Page, Ruth; Wentink, Andrew Mark; Delfau, André (1984). Class: notes on dance classes around the world, 1915–1980. Princeton Book Co. p. 35.
  9. ISBN 978-0-8101-2518-6
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  10. ISBN 978-0-300-18257-6
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  11. ^ "Galli, Rosina [Choreographer]". Met Opera. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  12. ^ "Carmen {292} Metropolitan Opera House: 26 November 1924". Met Opera. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  13. ^ "La Traviata {130} Metropolitan Opera House: 13 February 1925". Met Opera. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  14. ^ "Merry Mount". Opera America. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  15. ISBN 978-0-8184-0535-8
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  16. ISBN 978-1-4000-7589-8
    .
  17. ^ "Company Dancer". Fitchburg Sentinel. 19 June 1930. Retrieved 23 February 2014.
  18. ISBN 978-0-931340-78-9
    .

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