List of historical ballet characters

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Spartacus who appears as a character in the 1958 ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian Ivan Vasiliev in Spartacus, Bolshoi Theatre 2011-10-28.jpg
Spartacus who appears as a character in the 1958 ballet Spartacus by Aram Khachaturian

This is a list of historical figures who have been characters in ballets.

Contents

List of historical figures

A

Hans Christian Andersen , Danish author

Anna Anderson , impostor of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

Andrew II of Hungary , King of Hungary

B

Bahram V , King of Persia

Giovanni Boldini , Italian genre and portrait painter

William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid), frontier outlaw in the American Old West

Lizzie Borden , American woman who was acquitted for murder

C

Marie Anne de Cupis de Camargo , French/Belgian dancer

Caravaggio , Italian Baroque painter

Caroline Matilda of Great Britain , Queen of Denmark and Norway, the wife of Christian VII of Denmark

Fanny Cerrito , Italian ballet dancer and choreographer

Cleopatra , last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt

Marcus Licinius Crassus , Roman general and politician

Cyrano de Bergerac , French dramatist

D

Hugh Despenser the Younger , royal chamberlain and a favourite of Edward II of England

Sergei Diaghilev , Russian art critic, ballet impresario, and founder of the Ballets Russes

Charles Didelot , French dancer and choreographer

Isadora Duncan , American dancer

E

Edward II of England , King of England

Edward III of England , King of England

Caroline Alice Elgar , English author

Edward Elgar , English composer

Empress Elisabeth of Austria , Empress consort of Austria

Elizabeth I of England , Queen of England and Ireland

F

Franca Florio , Italian noblewoman, socialite and a prominent protagonist of the Belle Époque

Ignazio Florio Jr. , Italian entrepreneur

Saint Francis of Assisi , founder of the Franciscans

Franz Joseph I of Austria , Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary

G

Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall , English nobleman

Archduchess Gisela of Austria , second daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria

Lucile Grahn , Danish ballerina

Alfred Grünfeld , court pianist of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria

H

James Hepburn, 4th Earl of Bothwell , Lord High Admiral of Scotland and 3rd husband of Mary, Queen of Scotland

Herodias , a princess of the Herodian Dynasty

E. T. A. Hoffmann , German Romantic author

I

Isabella of France , Queen of England as the wife of Edward II

Ivan the Terrible , Tsar of Russia

J

August Jaeger , Anglo-German music publisher

Jiang Qing , Chinese figure, 4th wife of Mao Zedong

K

Frida Kahlo , Mexican painter

Mathilde Kschessinska , Russian prima ballerina

Andrey Kurbsky , Russian figure, political opponent of Ivan the Terrible

L

Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich , niece of Empress Elisabeth of Austria

Louis XVI of France , King of France

Princess Louise of Belgium , wife of Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

M

La Malinche , Aztec mistress of Hernán Cortés

Mao Zedong , Chinese leader

Marie Antoinette , Queen of France and Navarre

Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria , third daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria

Mary, Queen of Scots , Queen of Scotland

Léonide Massine , Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

George "Bay" Middleton , English horseman

Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March , English nobleman

N

Vaslav Nijinsky , Russian ballet dancer and choreographer

Jean-Georges Noverre , French dancer and ballet master

O

P

Niccolò Paganini , Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer

Denis Papin , French physicist, mathematician and inventor

Philippa of Hainault , Queen of England as the wife of King Edward III

Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha , Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Q

R

Jacques Renaudin (Valentin le désossé), French can-can dancer

Arthur Rimbaud , French poet

Diego Rivera , Mexican painter

Anastasia Romanovna , Tsaritsa consort, first wife of Ivan the Terrible

Salvator Rosa , Italian Baroque painter, poet, and printmaker

Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria , Crown Prince of Austria

S

Arthur Saint-Léon , French dancer and choreographer

Katharina Schratt , Austrian actress

Clara Schumann , German musician

Robert Schumann , German composer

George Robertson Sinclair , English cathedral organist

Princess Sophie of Bavaria , Archduchess of Austria

Spartacus , Thracian gladiator

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium , Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia

Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley , King consort of Scotland

T

Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe , Austrian statesman

Marie Taglioni , Italian/Swedish ballet dancer

Tancred, Prince of Galilee , Norman Crusade leader

U

V

Baroness Mary Vetsera , Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistress

François Villon , French poet

Alessandro Volta , Italian physicist

W

Louise Weber (La Goulue), French can-can dancer

X

Y

Z

George Zorbas , Greek miner

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