Jean Coralli
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France
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dancer and choreographer and later held the esteemed post of First Balletmaster of the Paris Opera Ballet
Paris Opera Ballet
The Paris Opera Ballet is the oldest national ballet company in the world, and many European and international ballet companies can trace their origins to it...
. He is best known for the creation of the Romantic
Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution...
ballet Giselle
Giselle
Giselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
(1841) which he choreographed in tandem with another French dancer, Jules Perrot
Jules Perrot
Jules-Joseph Perrot was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia...
.
Works
Mains works include:- 1806: Paul et Rosette
- 1806: Amphion
- 1807: Les Incas
- 1807: Hélène et Pâris
- 1815: La Dansomanie
- 1816: Les Noces de Zéphire et Flore
- 1825: La Statue de Vénus
- 1825: Les Ruses espagnoles
- 1826: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
- 1826: Gulliver
- 1826: La Visite à Bedlam
- 1827: Le Mariage de raison
- 1827: La Neige
- 1828: Les Hussards et les jeunes filles
- 1828: Léocadie
- 1829: Les Artistes
- 1830: La Somnambule
- 1830: Le Mariage de raison
- 1831: L'Orgie
- 1834: La Tempête ou l'Île des génies
- 1836:
- 1837: La Chatte métamorphosée en femme
- 1839: La Tarentule
- 1841: GiselleGiselleGiselle is a ballet in two acts with a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Théophile Gautier, music by Adolphe Adam, and choreography by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot. The librettist took his inspiration from a poem by Heinrich Heine...
, with Jules PerrotJules PerrotJules-Joseph Perrot was a dancer and choreographer who later became Balletmaster of the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg, Russia... - 1843: La Péri
- 1844: Eucharis
- 1847: Ozaï