Allegra Kent taking ballet. After graduating, she joined the New York City Ballet in 1953 at the age of 15, and was promoted to principal in 1957. Many roles in George Balanchine's ballets were created for her, including "Seven Deadly Sins", "Ivesiana" and "Bugaku". She danced the role of Dewdrop in the 1958 Playhouse 90 telecast of Balanchine's version of "The Nutcracker". She performed in such ballets as "Serenade", "Agon" and "Dances at a Gathering". She retired in 1981, becoming a ballet teacher, and in 1997 published an autobiography, "Once a Dancer". In 2012, Kent published her first book for children, "Ballerina
Salvatore Allegra composed a number of musical scores for films, among which "Amori e veleni" (1950) with Amedeo Nazzari and directed by Giorgio Simonelli. He died in Florence. Salvatore Allegra Salvatore Allegra (1898–1993) was an Italian composer. Allegra was born in Palermo. He composed a number of operettas in the 1920s, including "Il gatto in cantina" (1930), which is still performed sometimes, passing then to operas, such as the dark "verista" drama "Ave Maria", which was first staged at La Scala in 1934, which was followed by "I Viandanti" (1936), "Il Medico suo malgrado" (1938) and "Romulus" (1952). He completed and edited