Marie Sallé
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Marie Sallé was a French dancer and choreographer in the 18th century known for her expressive, dramatic performances rather than a series of "leaps and frolics" typical of ballet of her time.
Sallé, c. 1730, after Nicolas Lancret
Marie Sallé, by Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Alcina
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Alcina is a 1735 opera by George Frideric Handel. He used the libretto of L'isola di Alcina, a work set to music in 1728 in Rome by Riccardo Broschi, which he had acquired a year later during his trav
Marie Sallé
…Opera House, Covent Garden. She danced in Terpsicore, a prologue to a revision of Handel's Il pastor fido and in the premieres of the same composer's Alcina and Ariodante. Also In 1734 she presented her first original, and almost famous work in 1734, Pygmalion, a mythological tale of a statue that comes to…
Alcina Meets Ruggiero, Niccolò dell'Abbate, c. 1550
Performance in the ancient Herodeion theatre in Athens on 6 July 2019