biography
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Saint-Léon, (Charles Victor) Arthur
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pronunciation:
[sĩ layõ]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1821–71)
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| biography:
| Dancer, choreographer, and violinist, born in Paris, France. He studied with his father, a ballet master in Stuttgart, before making his debut dancing and playing the violin in Munich at 14. He later danced and staged ballets all over Europe (1845–51), often with and for his wife, the ballerina Fanny Cerrito (1817–1909), whom he married in 1845 (separated, 1851). He was ballet master with the St Petersburg Imperial Theatre (1859–69) and Paris Opéra (1863–70). He staged his most famous ballet, Coppélia, with music by Delibes, in 1870. |
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