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In a theatre, a box, loge, [1] or opera box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event. The interior of the Palais Garnier , an opera house , showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above
An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called the stage, and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event.
The name of the opera should be in its original language except: When the opera is commonly known in English-speaking nations by another title (i.e. The Marriage of Figaro). When the opera's full original title is widely known in an abbreviated form (i.e. I Lombardi). Capitalization See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization).
Opera prompters are traditionally housed in a stuffy wooden box at the center-front edge of the stage, above the orchestra pit. They are visible to the performers and no one else. Technology has brought cool air and small display screens, among other advances, to support their work. Effective prompting can be a challenge.
The Firework-Maker's Daughter (opera) The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown; The Francis Bacon Opera; G. Ghost Patrol (opera) The Gift of the Magi (Conte opera) H.
Parterre Box (often stylized as parterre box) is an online magazine devoted to opera, which cultivates an attitude that may be deemed to be campy, critical and opinionated with explicitly gay overtones. The publication was founded by the New Yorker James Jorden in 1993 [1] during a period of under-employment as an opera director. [2]
In theatres, the balcony was formerly a stage box, but the name is now usually confined to the part of the auditorium above the dress circle and below the gallery. Balconies are part of the sculptural shape of the building allowing for irregular facades without the cost of irregular internal structures.
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given.