Luigi Astolfi [SEP] place of birth
Luigi Astolfi
Luigi Astolfi (; 1790s–1860s) was an Italian dancer, choreographer, and composer.
Life.
Luigi Astolfi was born in Lombardy in the 1790s.
In 1817 he had his first success as a dancer performing "Osvaldo e Olfrida" by Giuseppe Sorrentino at the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice.
In the following years he also started to practise as a choreographer, especially in Lisbon and, to a lesser extent, also in Oporto, in Vienna, and in Russia, but with less success;
the other. It required great diplomacy on the part of Benjamin Lumley, the opera manager, to arrange the order of the middle two solos, and when he proclaimed that the elder of the two should go last, Cerrito was reluctant to claim her 'prize'!
See also.
- Luigi Astolfi
- Women in dance