Martha Irmler

Martha Irmler was a German ballet dancer active on the stage during the late 19th century. She began her career at the Semperoper in Dresden where she trained as a dancer from ages 4 to 17. She made her debut as principal dancer at that theatre when she was 15, and subsequently performed in European theaters as a principal dancer during the late 1880s. She had an active career in the United States and England during the 1890s. With the American Extravaganza Company she toured the United States in the musicals Alladin, Jr. (1890), The Crystal Slipper (1891), Sinbad (1891–1892, 1894), and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1892–1893). She was prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera in 1891–1892 and again in 1896–1897. In 1895–1896 she was prima ballerina at the Empire Theatre, Leicester Square, London. She married in South Africa, and was living there at the time her marriage was reported in the press in July 1900.