Comédie-Italienne or Théâtre-Italien are French names which have been used to refer to Italian-language theatre and opera when performed in France. The...
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La Comédie Italienne is a theatre in the Montparnasse district of Paris, presenting Italian commedia dell'arte plays in French translation. The present-day...
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seventeenth-century Italian troupe of players performing in Paris and known as the Comédie-Italienne. The name is a diminutive of Pierre (Peter), via the suffix -ot and...
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Turin and Mantua. The character was also performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne in Italian by Giambattista Andreini and Angelo Costantini (c. 1654–1729)...
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the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are Le Triomphe de...
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Comédie-Française. The Guénégaud's company of Italian actors moved to the now unoccupied Hôtel de Bourgogne and became known as the Comédie-Italienne...
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the Comédie Italienne in 1774 in Grétry's Sylvain. She was at once admitted pensionnaire and in 1775 sociétaire. She became a star of the Comédie Italienne...
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premiere in Paris, Comédie Italienne, 12 October 1778, lost. Note: a few numbers survive. L'Amant anonyme (The Anonymous Lover), comédie mélée d'ariettes...
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his monumental study of commedia dell'arte – Masques et bouffons (comédie italienne), 1860. Callirhoé, Paris, M. Lévy frères, 1864 Catalogue raisonné...
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Commedia dell'arte (redirect from Comedie Del Arte)
a century earlier. In France, during the reign of Louis XIV, the Comédie-Italienne created a repertoire and delineated new masks and characters, while...
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merged with – and for a time took the name of – its chief rival, the Comédie-Italienne at the Hôtel de Bourgogne. It was also called the Théâtre-Italien...
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Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent (and to a lesser extent the Comédie-Italienne), which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections. Associated...
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French playwright Molière having attended many performances of the comédie italienne, or commedia dell'arte. He is even referenced in a performance by...
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Europe Ancient Greek comedy Comédie-Française Comédie-Italienne Corral de comedias Theatre of ancient Rome Asia China Xiangsheng Hong Kong Mo lei tau...
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opera buffa. Comédie en vaudevilles also seems to have influenced the English ballad opera and the German Singspiel. One feature of the comédie en vaudevilles...
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malice. Flautino: a musical Brighella, often singing a cappella. The Comédie-Italienne actor Giovanni Gherardi, who performed this role, was able to perform...
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banishment of the Comédie Italienne from Paris in 1697. In 1716, she belonged to the first actors engaged when the Comedie Italienne was reestablished...
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17 December 2023. Caprara, Valerio (1993). Dino Risi: maître de la comédie Italienne [Dino Risi: master of Italian comedy] (in French). Translated by Bovard...
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1806) was a French playwright at the Comédie-Italienne for two decades. Favard was also an actor at the Comédie Française for fifteen years. Usually known...
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composer Nicolas Dalayrac. It was first performed on 15 May 1786 by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris. The libretto, by Benoît-Joseph...
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parterre. Seats were installed in the Comédie-Française in 1782 and in 1788 benches were installed in the Comédie-Italienne. In 1777 Jean-François de La Harpe's...
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création à la Comédie-Italienne, 7 September 1789 : Le Tuteur célibataire, comedy in one act by M. Desforges, first performed at the Comédie-Italienne on 17 November...
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Louis Fuzelier (section Comédie Italienne)
the Académie Royale de Musique. Fuzelier also wrote some works for the Comédie-Française and was one of the principal editors of the Mercure de France...
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Book illustration of Pulcinella in 1700 (1860) by Maurice Sand, found in Masques et bouffons: comédie italienne...
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conceived as an opéra comique, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne. The play as it is now known was written in 1773, but, due to legal...
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happened to be the daughter of Silvia Balletti, an actress of the Comédie Italienne company and younger sister of Casanova's closest friend. The lovers...
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Europe Ancient Greek comedy Comédie-Française Comédie-Italienne Corral de comedias Theatre of ancient Rome Asia China Xiangsheng Hong Kong Mo lei tau...
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comedy in free verse, Comédie Italienne, 9 February 1732: La Vie est un songe, three-act comédie héroïque in verse, Comédie Italienne, 12 November 1732:...
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between the Italian Pedrolino and the later Pierrot of the French Comédie-Italienne, and, although a link between the two is possible, it remains unproven...
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Retrieved 17 July 2023. Caprara, Valerio (1993). Dino Risi: maître de la comédie Italienne [Dino Risi: master of Italian comedy] (in French). Translated by Bovard...
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