de Valois

American  

[duh val-wah] / də ˈvæl wɑ /

noun

1. Dame Ninette Edris Stannus, 1898–2001, British ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director: founder of the Royal Ballet (originally the Sadler's Wells Ballet).

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de Valois British  

/ də ˈvælwɑː /

noun

1. Dame Ninette (niːˈnɛt). original name Edris Stannus. 1898–2001, British ballet dancer and choreographer, born in Ireland: a founder of the Vic-Wells Ballet Company (1931), which under her direction became the Royal Ballet (1956)

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Example Sentences

It took an intensive process of vocal exercises to build her strength back up, but she persevered just in time to deliver her first major Verdi role, as Don Carlo's Elizabeth de Valois, at the Royal Opera House.

From BBC

Carlos, the Prince of Asturias, is engaged to France’s Élisabeth de Valois, but the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis called for Élisabeth to marry Carlos’ father, Philippe of Spain.

From Seattle Times

So she started accepting engagements in European houses, work that led to a series of breakthroughs, including triumphs in Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” at London’s Royal Opera House and Madrid’s Teatro Real; acclaim in a Rossini rarity, “Adina” at the annual festival in the composer’s birthplace of Pesaro, Italy; and - especially - an emergency call in 2018 to replace Diana Damrau as Marguerite de Valois in Meyerbeer’s “Les Huguenots” in Paris.

From Washington Times

In 1572 the future Henri IV, a Huguenot who sought to end the bloodshed, married Marguerite de Valois, a princess from the ruling Catholic dynasty.

From BBC

After he died, the graduates of his troupe more or less staffed the directorships of Western ballet—Léonide Massine and Bronislava Nijinska in Europe and America, Marie Rambert and Ninette de Valois in London, Serge Lifar in Paris, and, notably, George Balanchine in New York.

From The New Yorker