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| x Teatro Massimo, Palermo |
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The Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is an opera house and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in Palermo, Sicily. It was dedicated to King Victor Emanuel II. It is the biggest in Italy and one of the largest of Europe (the third after the...
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| x Les Ballets de Monte Carlo |
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Grimaldi Forum | 1985 |
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo is a classical ballet company established in 1985 by Her Royal Highness the Princess of Hanover in accordance with the wishes of her mother, Princess Grace of Monaco. It is the official, national company of the...
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| x English National Ballet |
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London | 1950 |
English National Ballet is a renowned classical ballet company based at Markova House in London, England. One of three major ballet companies in Great Britain, English National Ballet is one of the leading ballet companies in Europe and is primarily...
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| x Pacific Northwest Ballet | Dance Company | Seattle | 1972 |
Pacific Northwest Ballet (PNB) is a ballet company based in Seattle, Washington in the United States. Founded in 1972 as part of the Seattle Opera and named the Pacific Northwest Dance Association, it broke away from the Opera in 1977 and took its...
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| x Royal Danish Ballet |
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Employer | Copenhagen | 1748 |
The Royal Danish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet troupes in Europe. Based in Copenhagen, Denmark, it originates from 1748, when the Royal Danish Theatre was founded, and was finally organized in 1771 in response to the great popularity of French...
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| x Paris Opera Ballet | Employer | Paris | 1661 |
The Paris Opéra Ballet is the official ballet company of the Opéra national de Paris, otherwise known as the Palais Garnier, though known more popularly simply as the Paris Opéra. Its origins can be traced back to 1661 with the foundation of the...
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| x Royal Ballet, London |
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Employer | London | 1931 |
The Royal Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of three major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in 1931 by Dame...
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| x San Francisco Ballet |
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Dance Company | San Francisco | 1933 |
The San Francisco Ballet (SFB) is a ballet company, founded in 1933 as part of San Francisco Opera Ballet. The company is currently based in the War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, California, under the direction of Helgi Tomasson. SFB is the...
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| x Alberta Ballet Company |
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Dance Company | Calgary | 1950 |
The Alberta Ballet (also known as the Alberta Ballet Company) is located in Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta. It is Canada’s third largest dance company. Alberta Ballet has developed a distinctive repertoire and performance quality that has brought it...
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| x Milwaukee Ballet |
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Dance Company | Milwaukee | 1969 |
The Milwaukee Ballet is a professional ballet company located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1969 by Roberta Boorse and held its first performance on April 24, 1970. It is currently ranked among the top twelve ballet...
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| x Australian Ballet Company | Dance Company | Melbourne | 1962 |
The Australian Ballet was founded in 1962 and had its first performance at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney.
Today the company, based in Melbourne, regularly tours to all the major cities within Australia, with lengthy seasons in Melbourne at the State...
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| x Royal New Zealand Ballet | Dance Company | Wellington | 1953 |
The Royal New Zealand Ballet is based in Wellington, New Zealand. It was originally known as The New Zealand Ballet Company.
New Zealand Ballet was established in 1953 as an independent charitable trust by Royal Danish Ballet Principal Poul Gnatt,...
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| x Birmingham Royal Ballet |
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Dance Company | Birmingham |
The Birmingham Royal Ballet (BRB) is one of the UK's foremost ballet companies, based at the Birmingham Hippodrome in Birmingham, where it enjoys custom-built facilities such as the Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Dance Injuries...
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| x American Ballet | Employer | New York |
American Ballet was the first professional ballet company George Balanchine created in the United States. The company was founded with the help of Lincoln Kirstein, and was populated by students of Kirstein and Balanchine's School of American Ballet...
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| x New York City Ballet |
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Employer | New York | 1948 |
New York City Ballet (NYCB) is a ballet company founded in 1948 by choreographer George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein with musical director Leon Barzin and with founding choreographers Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. City Ballet grew out of...
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| x Ballet Nacional de Cuba |
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National Ballet of Cuba (Ballet Nacional de Cuba), is managed by Cuban prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso and is one of the top ballet companies in the world. The artistic standards and technical severity of the dancers and the wide diversity in...
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| x Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre |
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Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre is an American professional ballet company based in the Cultural District of Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
In 1965, Yugoslavian choreographer Nicolas Petrov joined the dance faculty at the Pittsburgh...
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| x National Ballet of Canada | Location |
The National Ballet of Canada is Canada's largest ballet troupe. It was founded by Celia Franca in 1951 and is based in Toronto, Ontario. Based upon the unity of Canadian trained dancers in the tradition and style of England's Royal Ballet, The...
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| x Houston Ballet | Organization |
The Houston Ballet, operated by the Houston Ballet Foundation, is the fourth-largest professional ballet company in the United States, based in Houston, Texas. The foundation also maintains an acclaimed ballet academy, the Ben Stevenson Academy,...
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| x Mariinsky Ballet |
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The Mariinsky Ballet, is an internationally renowned classical ballet company based at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 19th Century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky Ballet is one of...
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| x Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo | Film subject | Monte Carlo | 1933 |
Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was an influential ballet company founded by René Blum and Colonel Vassily de Basil in 1933. The company followed Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, which had stopped operating when Diaghilev died in 1929. In 1938 the...
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| x Tulsa Ballet | Location |
Tulsa Ballet is a professional American Ballet company located in Tulsa, OK. The artistic mission of Tulsa Ballet is "To preserve the tradition of classical ballet, promote the appreciation of contemporary dance, create works of superior and...
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| x Ballet San Jose | Organization |
Ballet San Jose in San Jose, California, USA, was founded in 1986 as the "San Jose Cleveland Ballet," a co-venture with the ten-year old Cleveland Ballet which offered to the dancers added performing exposure, and each city a ballet company for a...
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| x Ballets Russes |
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The Ballets Russes (French for The Russian Ballets) was a ballet company established in 1909 by the Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev. It performed until his death in 1929. It was initially resident in the Théâtre Mogador and Théâtre du Châtelet,...
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| x Scottish Ballet | Location |
Scottish Ballet is Scotland's national ballet company, based in Glasgow.
Founded by Peter Darrell and Elizabeth West as Western Theatre Ballet in Bristol in 1957, the Company moved to Glasgow in 1969 and was renamed Scottish Theatre Ballet, changing...
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| x Royal Swedish Ballet |
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The Royal Swedish Ballet is one of the oldest ballet troupes in Europe. Based in Stockholm, Sweden, King Gustav III founded the ballet in 1773 as a part of his national cultural project in response to the French and Italian dominance in this field;...
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| x Dutch National Ballet | Location |
Dutch National Ballet was formed in 1961 when the Amsterdams Ballet and the Nederlands Ballet merged. The company has been directed by Sonia Gaskell (1961-1969), Rudi van Dantzig (1969-1991), Wayne Eagling (1991-2003) and is currently directed by...
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| x Vienna State Opera Ballet | Location |
The Vienna State Opera Ballet, like the opera company, is based at the Vienna State Opera House in Vienna, Austria. The original building was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1945.
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| x Royal Winnipeg Ballet | Location |
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is Canada's oldest ballet company and the longest continuously operating ballet company in North America.
It was founded in 1939 as the "Winnipeg Ballet Club" by Gweneth Lloyd and Betty...
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| x Stuttgart Ballet |
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Dance Company | Stuttgart |
Stuttgart Ballet was the first major German ballet company, which rose to fame in the 1960s under Artistic Director John Cranko in Stuttgart. The company showcased several full-length story ballets, including Romeo and Juliet, Eugene Onegin, The...
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| x American Ballet Theatre | Location |
American Ballet Theatre, based in New York City, was one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century. It continues as a leading dance company in the world today. A writer for London's The Observer describes the ABT along with the New York...
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| x Boston Ballet | Dance Company |
The Boston Ballet is a professional ballet company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1963 by E. Virginia Williams and was the first professional repertory ballet company in New England. Under the leadership of Artistic Directors...
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| x Pennsylvania Ballet | Employer |
The Pennsylvania Ballet is a ballet company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, established in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger. The company became a regionally important institution, and performed in New York for the first time in 1968. The Ballet has since...
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