Choreographer

Angiolo Vestris

France-Italian ballet dancer

Born 1730 · FlorenceDied 1809France

Angiolo Vestris was a French choreographer, born in 1730 in Florence, who died in 1809.

Biography

Angiolo Maria Gasparo Vestris (19 November 1730, Florence – 10 June 1809, Paris) was a Franco-Italian ballet dancer.

The younger brother of Gaétan Vestris and Thérèse Vestris, he studied dance with Louis Dupré and became a soloist of the Opéra de Paris in 1753. He then danced at Stuttgart under the direction of Noverre (also marrying Rose Gourgaud, daughter of the comic-actor Dugazon, in the town in 1766) before returning to Paris in 1767, where he was taken on as an actor at the Comédie-Italienne.

From the Wikipedia article “Angiolo Vestris”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contemporaries

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