Joseph Mazilier
French ballet dancer and choreographer (1801–1868)
Joseph Mazilier (1 March 1801 – 19 May 1868) was a 19th-century French dancer, balletmaster and choreographer. He was born as Giulio Mazarini. He was most noted for his ballets Paquita (1844) and Le Corsaire (1856). He created the role of James in La Sylphide with Marie Taglioni. Marie Guy-Stéphan debuted in Aelia et Mysis at the Paris Opéra when she moved in 1853 to Paris.
Ballets
La Gypsy (1839)
La Vendetta (1839)
Le Diable Amoureux (1840)
Lady Henrietta, or the Servant of Greenwich (Lady Henriette, ou la Servante de Greenwich) (1944)
Le Diable à Quatre (1845)
Paquita (1846)
Betty (1846)
Griseldis, ou les Cinq sens (1848)
Vert-vert (Green-Green) (1851)
Orfa (1852)
Aelia et Mysis, ou l'Atellane (1853)
Jovita, ou les Boucaniers (1853)
La Fonti (1855)
Le Corsaire (1856)
Les Elfes (1856)
Marco Spada ou La Fille du Bandit (1857)
Une fête au port (1867)
Roles
James in La Sylphide by Filippo Taglioni in 1832
Fernando in La Tempête by Jean Coralli in 1834
Stenio in La Gypsy in 1839
Other ballet posts
Master of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1839 until 1851.
Master of the Saint Petersburg Ballet from 1851 until 1852
Master of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1852 until 1857.
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