Commedia dell'arte

•  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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•  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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•  Thomas and Friends

  Thomas and Friends is a British children's television series, first broadcast on the ITV network in September 1984. Until season 7, which premiered in 2003, it was named Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. This series was shot on 35mm film. The first 12 seasons were filmed at Shepperton Studios. It is based on The Railway Series of books by the Reverend W. V. Awdry.

  

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•  Bill Beeny

  Bill Beeny (born September 1, 1926, in Madisonville, Kentucky, United States) is a Baptist minister and self-declared segregationist who led right-wing organizations in St. Louis, Missouri, during the 1960s. More recently he has worked to popularize his theory that the American singer Elvis Presley is still living.

  

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•  Lycoperdon perlatum

  The common puffball, gem-studded puffball or devil's snuff-box (Lycoperdon perlatum) is a moderate sized puffball mushroom with a round fruiting body, tapering to a wide stalk. It is off-white with a top covered in short, spiny bumps or "jewels". When mature, they become brown and a hole in the top opens to release spores which are released in a burst when the body is compressed by rain drops, a touch, falling nuts, etc.

  

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•  IP access controller

  IP access controller is an electronic security device designed to identify users and control entry to or exit from protected areas. A typical IP access controller supports 2 or 4 basic access control readers. It may have an internal web server and support configuration via a browser or via software installed on a host PC. The main features that distinguish IP controllers from older generation of serial controllers are: 1.

  

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