Jean Coralli Peracini, son of Giovanni Carlo Felice Serafino Coralli and Maria Barbara Ruggieri, is an Italian dancer and ballet master born in Paris on January 15, 1779. He died in the same city on May 1, 1854. From a Bolognese family, Jean Coralli studied at the School of the Paris Opera, where he began in 1801.
He choreographed his first works in 1806 for Vienna, Milan, Lisbon and Marseille. Appointed master of ballet at the Porte-Saint-Martin theater in 1825, he held the same position at the Opéra in 1831, where he replaced Jean-Pierre Aumer by ousting Filippo Taglioni and where he choreographed his most significant and famous works.
His choreography of Giselle, in collaboration with Jules Perrot, marks the peak of romantic ballet and is still represented today.
Coralli's main works include the following:
• 1806: Paul et Rosette
• 1806: Amphion
• 1807: Les Incas
• 1807: Hélène et Pâris
• 1815: La Dansomanie
• 1816: Les Noces de Zéphire et Flore
• 1825: La Statue de Vénus
• 1825: Les Ruses Espagnoles
• 1826: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
• 1826: Gulliver
• 1826: La Visite à Bedlam
• 1827: Le Mariage de Raison
• 1827: La Neige
• 1828: Les Hussards et les Jeunes Filles
• 1828: Léocadie
• 1829: Les Artistes
• 1830: La Somnambule
• 1830: Le Mariage de Raison
• 1831: L'Orgie
• 1832: La Tentation
• 1834: La Tempête, ou L'Île des Génies
• 1836: Le Diable Boiteux
• 1837: La Chatte Métamorphosée en Femme
• 1839: La Tarentule
• 1841: Giselle, ou Les Wilis, with Jules Perrot
• 1843: La Péri
• 1844: Eucharis
• 1847: Ozaï
