Choreographer

Nicola Guerra

Italian choreographer (1865-1942)

Born 1865 · NaplesDied 1942Kingdom of Italy

Nicola Guerra was an Italian choreographer, born in 1865 in Naples, who died in 1942.

Biography

Nicola Guerra (2 May 1865 – 5 February 1942) was an Italian dancer, choreographer and ballet master.

Trained in dance by a student of Carlo Blasis, he was primo ballerino in many Italian and foreign theaters and performed in New York in The Black Crook.

A dancer and ballet master at the Vienna State Opera (1896–1901), he directed the ballet of the Budapest Opera (1902-1915), then the Paris Opera Ballet (1927–1929) and finally the school dance of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1931–1932).

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Contemporaries

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