Angiolini G. (1731-1803), dancer

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ANGIOLINI Domenico Gasparo Maria (1731-1803), Italian dancer, ballet master, scenario writer, composer, teacher. In St. Petersburg, he was the court company's first dancer and choreographer (intermittently between 1766 and 1786). Angiolini reformed 18th century ballet by fighting for its development into a separate and serious art. He also introduced new subjects into the ballet other than tragic ones. In St. Petersburg, he composed over 20 ballets, both opera-serias and as independent performances. The latter include The Departure of Aeneas, or Dido Abandoned (1766), Semira (based on A.P. Sumarokov's tragedy, 1772), Theseus and Ariadne (1776), and A Chinese Orphan based on Voltaire's tragedy (1777). Almost all of them were set to his own music. His ballets starred S. Obri, G. Fusi, T.S. Bublikov, V.M. Mikhaylova, L. Paradis et al.

References: Красовская В. М. Западноевропейский балетный театр: Очерки истории: Эпоха Новерра. Л., 1981. С. 136-162, 210.

G. N. Dobrovolskaya. Angiolini Domenico Gasparo Maria
Bublikov (Bublichenko) Timofey Semenovich
Fousi J.
Mikhaylova Varvara Mikhailovna
Obri (Ubri) Santina
Paradis Leopold
Sumarokov Alexander Petrovich
Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet
Красовская В. М. Западноевропейский балетный театр: Очерки истории: Эпоха Новерра. Л., 1981
Музыкальный Петербург: Энцикл. слов.: Т.1: XVIII в.: В 5 кн. СПб., 1996