Chapuy, Alfred
(1829–1871)> DANCER
Chapuy, Alfred (29 August 1829, Bastide; 2 June 1871, Brussels), dancer, danced at the Opéra between 1855 and 1866. His talents won him the role of Pietro in Graziosa on 25 March 1861, and the short run of this ballet left him free in time to dance Don Raphaël in L’Etoile de Messine the following fall on 20 November 1861. The next winter he appeared in the divertissement of Charles Gounod’s La Reine de Saba on 28 February 1862 (see eighteenth-century volume for divertissement). Zina Mérante was…