Giuseppina Bozzacchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Giuseppina Bozzacchi

Italian ballet dancer

Date of Birth: 23-Nov-1853

Place of Birth: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1870

Profession: ballet dancer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Giuseppina Bozzacchi

  • Giuseppina Bozzacchi (23 November 1853 – 23 November 1870) was an Italian ballerina, noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in LĂ©o Delibes' ballet CoppĂ©lia at the age of 16 while dancing for the Paris Opera Ballet. Bozzacchi, who was born in Milan, had come to Paris to study with Mme Dominique.
  • The choreographer Arthur Saint-LĂ©on and the director of the AcadĂ©mie Royale de Musique, Émile Perrin, had been searching for a suitable Swanhilda, after deciding that none of the ballerinas previously considered – LĂ©ontine Beaugrand and Angelina Fioretti – were suitable, while Adèle Grantzow, the favorite ballerina of Saint-LĂ©on, had started to prepare the role with choreography in 1868 but then fell seriously ill.
  • In 1869 they even asked the composer, LĂ©o Delibes, to seek out a suitable Swanhilda on his trip to Italy.
  • He returned empty-handed; in the meantime, Saint-LĂ©on and Perrin had discovered 16-year-old Bozzacchi. She created the Swanhilda role on 25 May 1870 in the presence of Emperor Napoleon III.
  • She repeated her success in the following weeks.
  • In July an international dispute broke out between France and Prussia over the succession to the Spanish throne, and on 19 July France declared war.
  • Bozzacchi danced Swanhilda for the 18th and last time on 31 August, when the Paris OpĂ©ra closed for the duration of the Franco-Prussian War.
  • The OpĂ©ra had stopped paying salaries, and Bozzacchi, weakened by lack of food, became ill.
  • She contracted smallpox and fever, and died on the morning of her 17th birthday.
  • She was buried at Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris.

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