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Bella Figura is a contemporary ballet choreographed by Jiří Kylián to music by Lukas Foss, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Torelli. The ballet was made for the Nederlands Dans Theater , and premiered on 12 October 1995, at AT&T Danstheater [ nl ] , The Hague.
Romano was born in Brooklyn in 1951. She began writing novels at the age of eight and poetry at the age of 14. As the grandchild of immigrants from Naples and Sicily, she often writes on Italian-American themes, and on the intersection of Italian-American and sexual identities.
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Figura may refer to: Bella Figura, one act ballet by Jiří Kylián; Fgura, town in the south of Malta; Figura etymologica, rhetorical figure; Figura Serpentinata, style in painting and sculpture; Oliva figura, species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae (olives) translation of figure in some languages
Émile Waldteufel (German for forest devil) was born at 84 Grand'Rue in the centre of Strasbourg.His grandfather and father were both musicians; his mother Flora Neubauer, originally from Bavaria, had been a student of Hummel and had met Haydn; she was also a keen singer and dancer. [2]
The 1964 Grove's Dictionary defines the figure as "the exact counterpart of the German 'motiv' and the French 'motif '": it produces a "single complete and distinct impression". [3] To the self-taught Roger Scruton , [ 4 ] however, a figure is distinguished from a motif in that a figure is background while a motif is foreground:
La Bella is a portrait of a woman by Titian in the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. The painting shows the subject with the ideal proportions for Renaissance women. [1] In parallel the stringent composition corresponds to Titian's real portraits. The work can be dated by a letter about "that portrait of that woman in a blue dress" in May 1536.
Bella figlia dell'amore" ("Beautiful daughter of love") is a vocal quartet from the last act of Giuseppe Verdi's 1851 opera Rigoletto. It has been described as a "masterful quartet that is an intricate musical depiction of four personalities and their overlapping agendas", [ 1 ] and has been performed and recorded by many notable artists.