Fioretti, Angelina
(1846–1879)> BALLERINA
Fioretti, Angelina (1846, Italy; July 1879, Milan), ballerina, studied under the direction of Carlo Blasis and joined the corps de ballet at La Scala, where Marie Taglioni noticed her and arranged for her to come to Paris. She made her debut at the Opéra on 28 December 1863 in the divertissement of Gioacchino Rossini’s Moïse (see eighteenth-century volume for divertissement). She created a good impression with her early appearances at the Garnier Palace, and she was cast next as Gloriette in Le…