Emilie Walbom

Her aunt, Emilie Liebe, was an opera singer at the theatre when Walbon entered the ballet school at the age of five.

[3] In 1881, she married the dancer and opera singer Arnold Alfred Constantin Walborn, but following his death in 1898, she was left with three children to raise.

Every year, the season finished with a matinée featuring her own choreographic creations based on her trips to Berlin, Vienna and Paris.

Based on Michel Fokine's Carnaval which was created for Les Ballets Russes, it was fully adapted to Denmark and arranged for music by H.C. Lumbye.

Her students included Marguerite Viby, Karin Nellemose and Vera Gebuhr, all of whom gained fame both on the stage and as film actresses.