Elisabetta Terabust

Elisabetta Terabust (5 August 1946 – 5 February 2018) was an Italian ballerina and company director. She trained at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and worked for the London Festival Ballet (now the English National Ballet) and the Ballet National de Marseille. Terabust served as director of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, La Scala, MaggioDanza of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and of the Corps de ballet at the Teatro di San Carlo at various points between 1990 and 2009. The primary ballet rehearsal room at the Teatro dell'Opera Di Roma Dancing School was renamed for her.

Early life and career On 5 August 1946, Terabust was born Elisabetta Magli in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. Her mother Charlotte was a French woman of Basque descent and took up training in ballet and dancing as a child. She won the 1969 Positano Prize alongside Liliana Cosi and the 1970 Le Noci d'Oro en Lecce accolades,

In 1973, joining the London Festival Ballet (now the English National Ballet) to perform some leading classical repertoire roles.

Terabust returned to Italy in the 1980s and was a guest performer at Aterballetto in works by Alvin Ailey, Amedeo Amodio, Balanchine and William Forsythe. Terabust received the International Dance Award City of Rieti from the Rieti municipality in 2013; she was invited twice between 2011 from 2014 by the Piero Prize Fasciolo patron to be a juror in choosing the award winner.