Rosati, Carolina
(1826–1905)> BALLERINA
Rosati, Carolina , née Galletti (13 December 1826, Bologna; May 1905, Cannes), ballerina and a student of the most skilled ballet teachers in Italy, had earned herself an enviable reputation as a dancer before her first foreign tour to England in 1847 at age 20. Her success abroad was so pronounced that Charles-Edmond Duponchel of the Opéra offered her a contract for a Paris engagement even at this early date, but it was not until the spring of 1853 that Nestor Roqueplan managed to persuade her…