Ballet in Leicester Square, the Alhambra and the Empire, 1860 - 1915.
Author: Guest, Ivor Published: 1992 More than half a century separated the golden age of the romantic ballet and the revelation of Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The intervening period has often been cursorily passed over by historians, and here, for the first time, Ivor Guest reveals how ballet flourished in two of London's most famous music halls, the Alhambra and the Empire. |