Bozzacchi, Giuseppina - Vintage CDV Programs Special Sections Composers Performing dated 1998

dated 1998

Hertha Dehmlow

some creases over the left side of photo

held at Leicester in 1947

Italian opera composer (1807-1874)

Bozzacchi, Giuseppina - Vintage CDV Programs Special Sections Composers Performing dated 1998Italian ballerina (1853 1870), noted for creating the role of Swanhilda in Coppelia (the famous ballet by Leo Delibes) when she was only 16 years old. Due to the temporary closing of the Paris Opera during the Franco Prussian war, and weakened by lack of food, she died of smallpox and fever in the day of her 17th birthday. Vintage CDV of the ballerina by photographer Reutlinger, Paris unsigned. Size is 2. 5 x 3. 75 inches, very rare!