Brugnoli, Amalia (c. 1808–?)

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Brugnoli, Amalia (c. 1808–?)

Italian ballet dancer. Born c. 1808 in Milan, Italy; dau. of Giuseppina Brugnoli (ballerina); m. Paolo Samego (dancer).

Trained at ballet school of Teatro alla Scala in Milan; joined company (1817) and made debut appearance in Salvatore Viganò's Prometheus; appeared briefly on stages in Vienna (early 1820s); danced mainly in northern Italy at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, where she made 1st appearance on point and is often considered the inventor of "tiptoe" dancing, and Teatro alla Scala in Milan; danced in Pietro Angiolini's Haroum-al-Rachid at Teatro Reggio in Turin (1823); created a role in Louis Henry's Dircea at La Scala (1826); danced one season with husband at Théâtre des Bouffes in Paris (1832).

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