Antonietta Dell'Era
Antonietta Dell'Era (born February 16, 1861 in Milan , Kingdom of Sardinia ; died June 22, 1945 in Berlin ) was an Italian ballerina . In 1892 she took part in the role of Sugar Fairy at the world premiere of the ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Life
Antonietta Dell'Era was the daughter of Maria, geb. Prandoni, (1832-1919) and Domenico Dell'Era (1821-1904), an editor of the Gazzetta dei teatri . From the age of six she received ballet lessons in the dance school at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, with Annunciata Ramaccini (1807-1892), the wife of Carlo Blasis .
She had her first appearance in Milan at the Teatro Dal Verme . In Cairo she was the prima ballerina in La Devâdâcy by Hippolyte Monplaisir . In January 1879 she danced in the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele II in Messina and had success with a tarantella in Auber's La muette de Portici . In the same year, following advice from Virginia Zucchi , she went to Berlin , where Paul Taglioni worked as a choreographer at the Royal Court Opera .
She shone in the Berlin premiere of Coppélia by Léo Delibes in 1881 , and her contract as “royal court dancer” was repeatedly extended until 1909, with which she danced for the unusually long time of thirty years. One of her numerous admirers was the writer Theodor Fontane , who mentioned her several times in his letters and in two of his novels, Effi Briest (1894/95) and Der Stechlin (1897).
Dell'Era's contract enabled her, not uncommon at the time, to make guest appearances at other companies. She danced in Wiesbaden (1881/82), Bad Ems (1888) and Hanover (1889), among others. Her most ongoing and artistically most important foreign engagement, however, took place in the Russian Empire. Between 1886 and 1894 she danced there repeatedly, mainly in St. Petersburg . There she was part of a larger group of Italian artists who enriched the Russian musical theater in those years, among the dancers were Pierina Legnani , Enrico Cecchetti , Giovanna Limido and Virginia Zucchi, with rivalries among the artists.
In November 1892 she performed in Peter Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty in Saint Petersburg , and on December 18, less than a year before Tchaikovsky's death, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker was premiered in the Mariinsky Theater , choreographed by Lev Ivanov and set by the Opera director Ivan Vsevoloschsky . The "Colombine" danced Olga Preobrazhenskaya , the "Prince" Nicolas Legat , and Dell'Era took on the role of "Sugar Fairy". Tchaikovsky praised her technique, but criticized her beauty.
Dell'Era danced the posthumous Berlin premiere of Johann Strauss ' (son) Cinderella on May 2, 1901 . For the first time, the choreography in a contemporary Art Nouveau stage design did not provide for a tutu , an influence of the incipient modern dance in Germany.
On June 4, 1909, Dell'Era gave her farewell performance in the pantomime "Sardanapal" in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II .
In 1917 Antonietta Dell'Era married the Berlin private banker Felix Marsop (1863–1930).
literature
- Sebastian Panwitz: Antonietta Dell'Era (1861-1945). Prima ballerina of Berlin at the time of the German Empire . Berlin: Antonietta Dell'Era Foundation 2012.
- Concetta Lo Iacono: Dell'Era, Antonietta. In: Massimiliano Pavan (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 38: Della Volpe-Denza. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1990, pp. 49-50.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dell'Era, Antonietta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dell'Era-Marsop, Antonietta |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian ballerina |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 16, 1861 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 22, 1945 |
| Place of death | Berlin |