Rosita Mauri

Rosita Mauri (* November 15, 1856 in Reus, † December 3, 1923 in Paris, actually Roseta Armanda Isabel Mauri i Segura ) was a Catalan dancer and dance teacher. After initial successes in Barcelona, she performed at leading opera houses in Europe and was from 1878 as a prima ballerina at the Paris Opera on stage. She inspired many artists of her time and was renowned sculptors and painters model. In her honor, the State Ballet School of Catalonia and the dance cost of their native town is named.

Life

Roseta Armanda Isabel Mauri i Segura came in 1856 in Reus to the world. Her father was a dancer and worked as a choreographer at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona. He promoted early in the dancing talent of his daughter and gave her first ballet lessons. At the Liceu Roseta Mauri received about 1862 also by the Belgian dancer and choreographer Henri Dervine lessons. At the age of nine she had her first appearance in 1865 at the Teatre Principal in Palma de Mallorca. The following year, she stood at the side of Vicente Moreno and Manuel Panadero first time at the Teatre Principal of Barcelona on stage. Her first foreign round led occurring as Rosita Mauri outside their home dancer 1870 the Hamburg City Theatre. About Paris, where she was briefly at Madame Dominique further education, she returned to Barcelona. There she performed in the ballet La Hija del Aire on ( The daughter of the air) based on a play by Pedro Calderon de la Barca and had great success with the zarzuela La Flama o Filla del Foc. From 1871, Rosita Mauri was the prima ballerina of the Teatre Principal, and it was followed by appearances in the ballets Graziela and La Torera. Subsequently, she appeared at La Scala in the season 1872/73. After returning to Barcelona, ​​she took over the Liceu roles in the plays Barba Azul ( Blue Beard ) after the fairy tale by Charles Perrault and Editta di Belcourt of Marià Obiols i Tramullas.

1875 Rosita Mauri began an extensive European tour, they initially led to Berlin. At the local Court Opera Unter den Linden, she danced in front of Emperor William I and received an offer for permanent membership in the ensemble of the house, but she refused. Her next stop was the Teatro Comunale in Trieste, followed by the Court Opera in Vienna. After further engagements in Rome and at the Teatro Regio in Turin, she returned to Barcelona. 1877 brought the composer Charles Gounod, who had Rosita Mauri seen before in Milan on the stage, to Paris and convinced the management of the Paris Opera to engage the dancer. Her debut at the Palais Garnier gave 1878 as Venus in Gounod Polyeucte and in the same year, prima ballerina of the Paris Opera. In the following years she inspired many artists. These included artists such as Edgar Degas, who painted several times Rosita Mauri in their stage roles. Unlike Édouard Manet, whose arisen about 1879 painting Portrait of the dancer Rosita Rosita Mauri Mauri shows in a private environment. He had the dancer met through his school friend Antonin Proust, with Rosita Mauri had a long love affair. Both Proust as well Mauri portrayed later the Swedish painter Anders Zorn. In addition, created the painter Pierre -Auguste Renoir, Ludovic- Napoléon Lepic, Léon Bonnat and Léon -François Comerre portraits of Rosita Mauri, and she was the sculptors Denys Puech, Laurent Marqueste Eusebi Arnau and model.

Édouard Manet: Jeune femme en rose ( Rosita Mauri ), 1879, Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Léon- François Comerre: Portrait de la ballerina Rosita Mauri, private collection

Anders Zorn: Portrait of the dancer Rosita Mauri, 1888, Göteborgs Konstmuseum

The writer François Coppée wrote the ballet Korrigane, which was premiered in 1880 with music by Charles -Marie Widor in the choreography by Louis Merante for them. Coppée followed Jules Massenet 's El Cid from 1885 einbaute a ballet piece specifically for Rosita Mauri in his opera. In 1886 she appeared in the title role of André Messager 's Les Deux Pigeons, where she admired the poet Stéphane Mallarmé. Other roles she had in La Farandole by Théodore Dubois, in La tempête of Ambroise Thomas and La Maledetta by Paul Vidal. 1894 she released Carlotta Zambelli from a prima ballerina at the Paris Opera. Rosita Mauri ended her ballet career in 1897 in L' Etoile by André Wormser. She then worked until 1920 as a dance teacher at the Paris Opera. She died 1923 and was buried in the Cimetière Montparnasse. Since 1978, the State Dance School of the Generalitat de Catalunya bears the name La Escuela de danza Rosita Mauri. Your birth town of Reus directed since 2002 the dance competition Premi internacional de dansa Roseta Mauri in her honor from.