List: Commedia dell'arte

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•  Carlo Goldoni

  Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was a celebrated Venetian playwright and librettist, whom critics today rank among the European theatre's greatest authors. His works, along with those of the modernist Luigi Pirandello, include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty.

  

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•  Francesco Andreini

  Francesco Andreini (c. 1548 - 1624) was an Italian actor. Andreini was born at Pistoia. He was a member of the company of i Gelosi which Henry IV of France summoned to Paris to his bride, the young queen Marie de Medici, thus introducing the commedia dell'arte style to France. Both his wife, Isabella Andreini, and their son, Giambattista Andreini, were also distinguished in the arts.

  

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•  Lazzi

  Lazzi (from the Italian lazzo, a joke or witticism) is a piece of well-rehearsed comic action commonly used in the Commedia dell'arte. Most English-speaking troupes use the Italian plural "lazzi" as the singular and "lazzis" for the plural. During improvised performances a lazzi may be used to fill time or to ensure a certain frequency of laughs in a show.

  

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•  Commedia dell'arte

  Commedia dell'arte (short for "Commedia dell'arte dell'improvvisazione" — "comedy of the art of improvisation") is a professional form of theatre that began in Italy in the mid-15th century, and was characterized by masked "types", the advent of the actress, and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. It continued its popularity in France during the 17th century, and evolved into various configurations across Europe.

  

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•  Harlequinade

  Harlequinade is a type of theatrical performance piece, originally a slapstick adaptation of the Commedia dell'arte, which dates back to Italy in the 16th century. The story revolves around the lives of its five main characters: Harlequin, Pierrot, Columbine, Clown, and Pantaloon. The British harlequinade, beginning in the 18th century, involved a series of scenes interwoven with scenes from a serious play based on a myth or folklore.

  

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•  Carlo Gozzi

  Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 – April 4, 1806) was an Italian dramatist, known for his play The Green Bird.

  

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•  Pagliacci

  Pagliacci (Players, or Clowns) is an opera consisting of a prologue and two acts written and composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo. It recounts the tragedy of a jealous husband in a commedia dell'arte troupe. (Its name is sometimes incorrectly rendered as I Pagliacci with a definite article. ) Pagliacci premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan on May 21, 1892, conducted by Arturo Toscanini with Adelina Stehle as Nedda, Fiorello Giraud as Canio, Victor Maurel as Tonio, and Mario Ancona as Silvio.

  

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•  The Love for Three Oranges

  Sergei ProkofievFile:Sergei Prokofiev 02. jpg Operas The Giant, (1900) Maddalena (1911) The Gambler (1916) The Love for Three Oranges (1919) The Fiery Angel (1927) Semyon Kotko (1939) Betrothal in a Monastery (1941) War and Peace (1945) The Story of a Real Man (1948) v • d • e The Love for Three Oranges is an opera composed in 1919 by Sergei Prokofiev to a libretto based on the play L'Amore delle tre melarance by Carlo Gozzi.

  

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•  Tabarin

  Tabarin was the street name assumed by the most famous of the Parisian street charlatans, Anthoine Girard (c. 1584 – August 16, 1633), who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his brother Philippe (as Mondor), with whom he reaped a golden harvest by the sale of quack medicines for several years after 1618. Street theatre was popular theatre, on an improvised stage with a curtain backdrop, to the music of a hurdy-gurdy and a set of viols.

  

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•  Isabella Andreini

  Isabella Andreini (1562-1604), also known as Isabella Da Padova, was an Italian actress and writer. Isabella Andreini was a member of the Compagnia dei Comici Gelosi, an important touring theatre company that performed for the highest social circles of Italy and France. Famous in her time, and ever distinguished alike for her acting and her character, nowadays she is regarded as the epitome about incarnating the eponymous Isabella role of the Commedia dell'arte, which has been named after her.

  

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•  I Sebastiani

  Founded in Boston, MA in 1990, i Sebastiani is a commedia dell'arte troupe that specializes in Itallian comedy of the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century.

  

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•  Alberto Naselli

  Alberto Naselli of Bergamo, also known as Zan Ganassa, was an important figure in the early development of the commedia dell'arte theatre in Italy. Naselli organised some of the most substantial travelling troupes of artists, including the first troupe to tour France. He is also the first recorded person to play the character of Harlequin.

  

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•  Tutti Frutti (commedia dell'arte)

  Tutti Frutti is a commedia dell'arte troupe based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Primarily led by James Letchworth and his wife Marilyn Prince, the troupe originated decades ago at the Renaissance Pleasure Faire.

  

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•  Ophaboom Theatre Company

  The Ophaboom Theatre Company, founded in 1991 by Geoff Beale and Howard Gayton, is an English physical theatre company specializing in creating and performing contemporary works in the Italian Commedia dell'Arte tradition. Drawing on Medieval theatre and the origins of Commedia, Ophaboom set out with the self-stated aim of creating "a popular (and politically topical) style of theatre that would resonate with a modern audience, in the manner of Medieval strolling players.

  

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•  Thomas Jevon

  Thomas Jevon (1652–1688) was an English playwright, and one of the first English Harlequins. He began his career as a dancing master, but worked his way onto the stage, and played leading low-comedy parts in London between 1673 and 1688. His brother-in-law was the English playwright and poet laureate Thomas Shadwell.

  

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•  I Gelosi

  I Gelosi (meaning the Zealous or Jealous) was an acting troupe that performed commedia dell'arte from 1569 to 1604. Their motto was Virtu, fama ed honor ne fer gelosi, meaning "We are jealous of attaining virtue, fame, and honor". I Gelosi was formed in Milan, Italy by Flaminio Scala. Their first notable performer was Vittoria Pissimi. I Gelosi was the first troupe to be patronized by nobility: in 1574 and 1577 they performed for the king of France.

  

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•  Gianduja (commedia dell'arte)

  Gianduja is one of the masks of the Italian Commedia dell'Arte, typically representing the town of Turin (and Piedmont in general). The mask depicts an honest peasant of Piedmontese countryland, with a certain inclination for wine, gastronomy and beautiful girls, while strictly faithful to his lover Giacometta, who is usually represented by a cute girl.

  

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•  Antonio Sacco

  Antonio Sacco (1708–1788) was an Italian improvisational actor, renowned for his performance as the Commedia dell'arte stock character Truffaldino.

  

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•  Tiberio Fiorelli

  Tiberio Fiorelli (November 9, 1608 – December 7, 1694) was an actor of commedia dell'arte, creator of the character of Scaramouche, director of the troop of Comédiens-Italien Theatre, which shared with the troop of his friend Molière the Theatre of the Petit-Bourbon, and it Theatre of the Palais Royal. He was born in Naples, but left Italy around 1640 for unknown reasons, perhaps simply while following a troupe of actors, or to flee a political intrigue.

  

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•  Maurice Sand

  Jean-François-Maurice-Arnauld, Baron Dudevant, better known as Maurice Sand (born June 30, 1823 in Paris and died September 4, 1889 in Nohant-Vic), was a French illustrator and writer. Maurice Sand also experimented in various other subjects, including painting, geology, and biology. He was the son of Baron Casimir Dudevant and his wife, French novelist and feminist George Sand. Maurice Sand studied under Eugène Delacroix.

  

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