Katti Lanner

Among the ten ballets she staged at the Hamburg Opera House were Die Rose von Sevilla (1862) and Asmodeus, oder Der Sohn des Teufels auf Reisen (1863).

[5] Around 1865, Lanner founded her own company, the Viennese Ballet and Pantomime Troupe, which toured extensively in 1869–1872 in Scandinavia, Russia, France, Portugal, the United States, and England.

During her twenty years in this post, she produced thirty-four ballets, many in collaboration with composers Hervé (Florimond Ronger) and Leopold Wenzel and designer C. Wilhelm (William James Charles Pitcher).

Among them were The Sports of England (1887), Cleopatra (1889), The Paris Exhibition (1889), Orfeo (1891), Round the Town (1892–1895), On Brighton Pier (1894), Faust (1895), The Dancing Doll (1904–1905), and Sir Roger de Coverly (1907).

[11] [12] She also worked closely with Adeline Genée, prima ballerina of the company, who appeared in notable productions of Les Papillons (1900), High Jinks (1904), Cinderella (1906), and the British premiere of Coppélia (1906).

[13] Although Lanner had to make concessions to music hall audiences,[14] she and Dame Adeline kept classical ballet alive in Britain during the Edwardian era, a somnolent period of activity.