Author: ROYAL AQUARIUM
Title: Description of the Grand Ballet "Champagne," by Madame Kitti Lanner.
Description: Royal Aquarium, 1886. Handbill, 220 x 140 mm. Review and description of the ballet reproduced from the Daily Chronicle of December 21, 1886. Katharina Josefa Lanner [1829 - 1908] known as Katti, was a Viennese ballet dancer and choreographer who settled in London in 1875 and was responsible for establishing the institutional basis for ballet in England. She produced a great many ballets for the Empire Theatre of Varieties from 1887 until her death and is notable as the first woman to make a career of choreography.

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