Mardee Vosseler was a European-born ballerina, a protégé of Catherine Littlefield and sister of ballerina

Heidi Vosseler Heidi Vosseler (1918–1992) was an American ballerina who trained under Catherine Littlefield in her hometown of Philadelphia before becoming a member of George Balanchine's first American ballet company, American Ballet in 1934. She performed ...

. She performed in ''

La Traviata ''La traviata'' (; ''The Fallen Woman'') is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on ''La Dame aux camélias'' (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'' adapted from his own 18 ...

'', ''

Carmen ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

'' and William Sena's ''Scene dansante'' (to music of Gounod’s '' Faust'') with the Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company at the Academy of Music. Vosseler died in November, 1941, of injuries sustained in a car crash near

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.NY Times. November 4, 1941
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