TY - SER AU - Sasportes,José TI - Grand Opera and the Decline of Ballet in the later Nineteenth Century: A Discursive Essay PY - 2015/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press N2 - RESUMEN: Up to the end of the nineteenth century, the history of ballet and the history of opera were closely entwined in a war for supremacy, with opera often in the dominant role; this was particularly the case during the second half of the nineteenth century, when ballet was widely perceived as being in decline. Some historical background is necessary to provide a brief of the long process that led to this outcome ER -