Travesti is a theatrical character in an opera, play, or ballet performed by a performer of the opposite sex. For social reasons, female roles were played...

UK and, later, in the US: for example Maurice Dowling's 1834 Othello Travestie, George W H Griffin's 1870 Othello (Ethiopian Burlesque), the anonymous...

Jaroslav and Zdeňek, with the rôle of Benno danced by a female dancer en travestie. The rôle of Prince Siegfried was danced by Berger himself with the ballerina...

Polish ballet performers at the 1827 Venice Carnival. The dancer on the left is performing "en travestie" as a woman taking the man's role....

Travestie and Parody, by William Davenport Adams, published Henry & Co. London, 1891. p.105 A Book of Burlesque Sketches of English Stage Travestie and...

Cops Lie Inspector Latueva José Pinheiro Saxo Moska Ariel Zeitoun La travestie The Deutchman Yves Boisset Accord parfait The Admiral Arsène Floquet A...

occupation, and a number of prima ballerinas made their names by dancing en travestie. Fanny Elssler and her sister both played travesty parts. The most well...

(two of them also designated as Possen), plus two Burlesken and one 'Travestie'). There are 6 Zauberspiele and 4 Quodlibet, 2 Vorspiele (prologues) and...

Macbeth Travestie Momus Medlar (William Shakespeare) James XIX Stranger Travestie Momus Medlar (August von Kotzebue) James XX George Barnwell Travestie Momus...

and Simonelli, Pino, Un mariage dans la baie de Naples; Naples ville travestie; special issue Mediterranée, "Masques", été 1983 (numéro 18), pp. 106–116...