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For example, a petition was sent to the National Assembly regarding Paisiello's flashy opera Nina, osia la pazza d'amore, because it lacked political and educational meaning. [3] This resulted in the opera's closure in 1792 and the National Assembly banned theatre that did not incorporate the events of the Revolution.
18th-century dramatists and playwrights (1 C, 16 P) S. ... Pages in category "18th-century theatre" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
An 18th-century Neoclassical theatre in Ostankino, Moscow. Neoclassicism was the dominant form of theatre in the 18th century. It demanded decorum and rigorous adherence to the classical unities. Neoclassical theatre as well as the time period is characterized by its grandiosity.
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The 18th century French theatre flourished with influential playwrights such as Voltaire, known for works such as Œdipe (1718) and Zaïre (1732), and Marivaux, whose comedies explored the complexities of love, while Denis Diderot introduced the Bourgeois tragedy, and Beaumarchais revolutionized comedy with Le Barbier de Séville (1775) and Le ...
Mid 18th century form that developed out of the opera buffa, marked by the addition of serious, even tragic roles and situations to the comic ones. (Effectively a subgenre of opera buffa in the 18th century.) [7] La scuola de' gelosi (1778), La vera costanza (1779), Il viaggio a Reims (1825), Haydn, Mozart, Salieri, Sarti, Rossini, Donizetti [4]
18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Theatres completed in the 18th century" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 ...
There are a few examples of tragic plays with middle-class protagonists from 17th century England (see domestic tragedy), but only in the 18th century did the general attitude change. The first true bourgeois tragedy was an English play: George Lillo 's The London Merchant ; or, the History of George Barnwell , which was first performed in 1731.