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  Gaetano Appolino Baldassare Vestris - LoveToKnow 1911
GAETANO APPOLINO BALDASSARE VESTRIS (1729-1808), French ballet dancer, was born in Florence and made his debut at the Opera in 1748.
Allard, Vestris had a son, Marie Auguste Vestris Allard (1760-1842), also a ballet dancer, who surpassed his father, if possible, in both talent and vanity.
Gaetano's brother, Angelo Vestris (1730-1809), married Marie Rose Gourgaud, the sister of the actor Dugazon.
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 Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi). The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Following her debut (1815) in Italian opera, she acted at the Comédie Française with Talma, who suggested to her the ideas on realism in costuming that she was later to develop.
After her success as Don Giovanni in a burlesque of Mozart’s opera in 1820, Vestris became known for her natural style as a ballad-singing comedienne in light opera and in breeches parts (male roles).
Vestris produced Shakespearean comedies, with attention to text and historical accuracy, as well as burlesques and farces.
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 Lucia Elizabeth Vestris
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (January, 1797 - August 8, 1856) was an English actress.
In 1813 she married Auguste Armand Vestris, who deserted her four years later.
Her contralto voice and attractive appearance had gained Madame Vestris her first leading role in Italian opera in the title-role of Peter Winter's II ratio di Proserpina at the King's Theatre in 1815.
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 Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi) - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi), 1797-1856, English actress and manager, the first woman to be a lessee of a theater.
The daughter of a music and fencing teacher, she made an unsuccessful marriage at 16 to Armand Vestris, her ballet master.
Not satisfied with contemporary methods of production, she leased the Olympic Theatre, London, in 1831, and was an instant success as manager and director.
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 Mme Vestris
Madame Vestris revolutionized staging methods in England in the Nineteenth Century through the introduction of shorter programs (evening entertainments were concluded by eleven), and by an increased emphasis on realistic staging methods, most notably with the introduction of the box set.
Lucia Elizabeth Bartolozzi, a contralto of considerable grace and charm, was only sixteen when she married the famous dancing master Armand Vestris.
Vestris' plays was a social event that could be counted on to provide entertainment of taste and fashionable style.
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 Lucia Elizabeth Vestris - LoveToKnow 1911
LUCIA ELIZABETH VESTRIS (1797-1856), English actress, was born in London in January 1797, the daughter of Gaetano Stefano Bartolozzi (1757-1821) and granddaughter of Francesco Bartolozzi, the engraver.
In 1813 she married Auguste Armand Vestris (see above), who deserted her four years later.
With an agreeable contralto voice and a pleasing face and figure, Madame Vestris had made her first appearance in Italian opera in the title-role of Peter Winter's Il ratto di Proserpina at the King's Theatre in 1815.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Vestris,
Vestris was one of the greatest dancers of the 18th cent.
Born of an Italian theatrical family, he studied dance with Louis Dupré at the Royal Academy in Paris, then joined the Paris Opéra and served as dancing master to Louis XVI.
Bournonville studied in Copenhagen with his father Antoine, the ballet master, and in Paris with Auguste Vestris.
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 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
Elizabeth Vere was a goddaughter and maid of honor to Elizabeth I, and it is known that the queen was present at the Vere-Stanley wedding.
Elizabeth Carey was also a goddaughter to Elizabeth I, though there is no record of the queen attending the Carey-Berkeley wedding.
Lucia Elizabeth Vestris’ 1840 production marked the end of the musical revivals and the beginning of the era of Victorian productions heavily focused on illusion and spectacle.
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 Planche
Elizabeth St George, was also twenty-four and a noteworthy playwright.
Elizabeth Lucia Vestris (1797-1854): Granddaughter of a renowned immigrant artist, Giuseppe Bartolozzi, Vestris was one of Planché's longest-standing colleagues.
Elizabeth St. George (1796-1850)--Both Planché's distant cousin and his wife, she was also a notable writer.
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 Vestris Lucia Elizabeth - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Vestris Lucia Elizabeth - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
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Elizabeth II, full name Elizabeth Alexandra Mary (1926- ), Queen of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (1952- ), daughter of King George VI and...
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 Vestris, Lucia Elisabeth (1797-1856)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
When she was 16 she married her ballet master, the dancer Auguste-Armand Vestris, who was the ballet master at the King's Theatre.
In 1830 she became the manager of the Olympic Theatre and her management was instantly succesful.
By that time she was known as Madame Vestris.
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 TIME.com: Vestris -- Nov. 26, 1928 -- Page 1
The Lamport and Holt liner Vestris, built in Belfast in 1912 and measuring 495 feet in length, 10,944 tons, plied between New York and Buenos Aires, stopping at the Barbados and way points.
After this she was examined by three U. Department of Commerce inspectors, who spent three days in their work and certified her "seaworthy and equipped according to law." During the inspection every lifeboat was tested; filled with men, lowered to the water and raised again.
On Saturday afternoon, Nov. 10, the Vestris sailed from her pier at Hoboken, with fair weather and calm sea.
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 Lucia Elizabeth Vestris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She married Charles James Mathews in 1838, accompanying him to America and aiding him in his subsequent managerial ventures, including the management of the Lyceum Theatre and the theatre in Covent Garden.
They inaugurated their management of Covent Garden with the first known production of Love's Labor's Lost since 1605; Vestris played Rosaline.
In 1840 she staged one of the first relatively uncut productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she played Oberon, beginning a tradition of female Oberons that lasted for seventy years.
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 lucia garcia biography information -- lucia garcia biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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 Wharton, Betty, collector. Betty Wharton collection of theatrical autographs: Guide.
(18) Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, countess of, 1759?-1829.
(19) Derby, Elizabeth Farren Stanley, countess of, 1759?-1829.
to Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi) Vestris Mathews; [n.p.] 10 Jul 1853.
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 LUCIA ELIZABETH VESTRI... - Online Information article about LUCIA ELIZABETH VESTRI...
ELIZABETH [1lisabeth Philippine Marie Helene of France] (1764—1794)
Vestris (see above), who deserted her four years later.
face and figure, Madame Vestris had made her first See also:
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 AllRefer.com - Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi) Vestris (Theater, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi) Vestris[bArtOlOt´sE ves´tris] Pronunciation Key, 1797–1856, English actress and manager, the first woman to be a lessee of a theater.
Following her debut (1815) in Italian opera, she acted at the ComEdie FranCaise with Talma, who suggested to her the ideas on realism in costuming that she was later to develop.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Lucia Elizabeth (Bartolozzi) Vestris
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 Britannicaindia.com: Britannica Browse
One of the older Icelandic settlements, it grew as a fishing...
a family of dancers who dominated French ballet for nearly a century, most notably Gaetan Vestris (in full Gaetano Appoline Baldassare Vestri, or Vestris; b.
married name (from 1838) Lucia Elizabeth, or Elizabetta, Mathews, nee Bartolozzi British actress, opera singer, and manager who inaugurated tasteful and beautiful stage decor and...
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 Auguste Vestris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Auguste Vestris - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Born in Paris, he was the son of the famed dancer Gaétan Vestris (by his mistress, Marie...
Vestris, Lucia Elizabeth (1797-1856), néeBartolozzi, English actor and opera singer, born in London.
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 Vestris, Gaetan - ENCYCLOPEDIA - The History Channel UK
Vestris was the first dancer to discard the mask and to use his face in mime.
Paris, who, in turn, was considered the greatest male dancer of his time.
THE HISTORY CHANNEL and BIOGRAPHY are trademarks of AandE Television Networks used under license ©2004 AandE Television Networks.
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 WOODWARD, S.C. MSS.
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 Wm. Hazlitt - "On Great and Little Things".
For my part, I am shy even of actresses, and should not think of leaving my card with Madame Vestris.
12 Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (1797-1856) was an English actress.
She was born in London and at the age of sixteen she married a French dancer; two years later, in 1815, she separated from him.
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 Details of Portrait of Charles James Mathews 1803-1878 by English School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
On 18 July 1838, at Kensington Church, he married his manager, Madame Vestris [see Mathews, Lucia Elizabeth].
The ‘Beggar's Opera,’ with Harrison as Macheath and Madame Vestris as Lucy Lockett, was more successful, and the ‘Merry Wives of Windsor,’ with Mathews as Slender and Mrs.
Nisbett and Madame Vestris as the wives, proved a draw.
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 CLASSICALmanac: August 07
Debut as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1976
1856 Death of popular English contralto Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, in
Debut as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti) 1967
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 George Glazer Gallery - Madame Vestris as Apollo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
George Glazer Gallery - Madame Vestris as Apollo
Portrait of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris, the grand daughter of the engraver Bartolozzi.
Other classical gods and goddesses are shown in the background.
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 Lucia Elizabeth Mathews (1797-1856), 'Madame Vestris', actress and singer; wife of Charles James Mathews
Lucia Elizabeth Mathews (1797-1856), 'Madame Vestris', actress and singer; wife of Charles James Mathews
One of the best actresses of the day, with a gift for mimicry, and skill in singing and dancing; helped her husband, C.J, Mathews, in the management of various theatres.
National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place, London WC2H OHE.
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 Madame Vestris Biography - Biography.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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popular name of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris or Mathews, néeBartolozzi
At 16 she married the dancer Armand Vestris (1787–1825), the son of Auguste Vestris, but they separated two years later, and she went on the stage in Paris.
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 MARCH 2 CLASSICALmanac™ 'today in classical music'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
1797 Birth of Lucia Elizabeth Vestris Contralto Born 2 Mar 1797 London Died 8 Aug 1856 Debut as Prosperina in Ratto di Prosperina (Winter) 1815 Teacher :- Domenico Corri Created Fatima in Oberon (Weber)
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1890 Birth of Tom Burke Tenor Born 2 Mar 1890 Leigh Lancashire Died 13 Sep 1969 Debut as Duke in Rigoletto (Verdi) 1917 Teachers:- Ernesto Beraldi, Ernesto Colli, Edgardo Levi, Fernando De Lucia Pupil :- Rowland Jones
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