Marie Taglioni was the daughter of the Italian choreographer
Filippo Taglioni and the Swedish dancer Sophie Hedvig Karsten.
Her slender figure lived up to the romantic idea of a perfect
body and she became the leading ballerina of the romantic era.
In
1822 she debuted in Vienna in a ballet written by her father.
In 1827 she was engaged at the Opera in Paris, but her big break
came in 1832 when she performed in her father's "La Sylphide".
She soon found herself famous all over Europe. In 1832 she married
the Italian nobleman Jean Pierre Comte Gilbert de Voisins (c1800-1863).
They had a daugther in 1835, but they separated in 1836. From
1837 to 1839 she worked at the Imperial Theatre in St. Petersburg.
In 1843 in Munich she had another son by an unknown father,
Georges Gilbert de Voisins (1843-1893).
In 1847 she
left left the stage and moved to Italy. In 1858 she started
working as a dance teacher and in 1860 she became balletmaster
at the Opera in Paris. Around 1870 she left France because of
the war with Germany. For financial reasons she was forced to
continue her teaching work in London and Brighton between 1871
and 1880. At the time of her death in 1884 she was poor and
lived with her son in Marseille.
She was initially
buried at the Saint-Pierre Cemetery in Marseille and later transferred
to Père Lachaise in Paris. Because her name is also mentioned
on her mother's tomb at Montmartre Cemetery there is sometimes
confusion about her place of burial.
Family
• Mother: Karsten, Sophie Hedvig
• Brother: Taglioni, Paul
Related persons
• performed with Grahn-Young, Lucile
• was teacher of Livry, Emma
• knew Napoleon III Bonaparte
• is brother/sister of Taglioni, Paul
• was pupil of Vestris, Auguste
• was painted by Winterhalter, Franz Xaver
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