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4 unusual facts about Lise Noblet


Alexis Dupont

She was the sister of another ballerina, Lise Noblet, who danced the title part in Auber's La muette de Portici at its premiere, in which her brother-in-law Dupont also created a singing role.

La muette de Portici

The dancer Lise Noblet played the mute title role, a part later taken by other dancers such as Marie Taglioni and Fanny Elssler, also the actress Harriet Smithson (the future wife of Hector Berlioz).

Lise Noblet

She created the title role of Fenella in the opera La muette de Portici by Daniel Auber.

She left the Opéra in 1841 on the death of her faithful companion, général Claparède.



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