Taglioni, Filippo
Taglioni, Filippo (1778–1871),Italian choreographer, whose La Sylphide (The Sylph, 1832) is considered the first romantic ballet. The story of a Scottish farmer whose possessive love for a sylph causes her death, La Sylphide became the prototype for innumerable ballets based on the motif of the fairy bride. Taglioni created the role of the sylph for his daughter Marie, whose ethereal grace and elevation made her unusually convincing in supernatural roles. He also featured her in his fairy ballet La Fille du Danube (The Daughter of the Danube, 1836) and in L'Ombre (The Shadow, 1839), whose heroine becomes a ghost.
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