balletomanen.adj.

1919 Fortn. Rev. 1 Apr. 512 In the parterre, where once sat the ‘balletomanes’,..now were ranged the official delegates of the Congress.

1930 Time & Tide 28 Mar. 410 The balletomanes of the Marinsky Theatre, an audience ‘very knowledgeable, exacting, somewhat dogmatic and conservative’, but..enthusiastic.

1947 Ballet Ann. 1 22 Giselle inspires more passionate enthusiasm among balletomanes than any other work.

1969 D. Wright Deafness vii. 101 After seeing their first performance..I was made captive: and thenceforward, for the next seven years, a balletomane.

2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Apr. 17/4 Theatregoers feel they are pushing it if they see three Macbeths in four weeks,..but many a balletomane has seen more than three casts of one great ballet in a single week.

1922 Dial Mar. 295 All London became balletomane, and never ceased discovering new nuances in this amazing art.

1923 Musical Times 64 775/2 Diaghilev's Ballet..could not have materialised in Russia. The local ‘Balletomane’ public was not interested in it.

1939 Musical Q. July 343 A ballet entitled Les Cris populaires de Paris is known to have been a favorite of the balletomane Louis XIV.

1983 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Oct. c14 More than 20 years after his first ballet, he remains controversial. The mass public adores him. A balletomane group refuses to accept him.

1995 Slavic Rev. Winter 1028 Scholl steps on some balletomane toes by suggesting that Diaghilev's productions..were not as technically solid as past studies have claimed.