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  2. Rigoletto - Wikipedia

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    Rigoletto is an opera in three acts [a] by Giuseppe Verdi.The Italian libretto was written by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.Despite serious initial problems with the Austrian censors who had control over northern Italian theatres at the time, the opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851.

  3. Scenic design - Wikipedia

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    Scenic design, also known as stage design or set design, is the creation of scenery for theatrical productions including plays and musicals. The term can also be applied to film and television [1] productions, where it may be referred to as production design. [2] Scenic designers create sets and scenery to support the overall artistic goals of ...

  4. Act (drama) - Wikipedia

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    An act is a major division of a theatre work, including a play, film, opera, ballet, or musical theatre, consisting of one or more scenes. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The term can either refer to a conscious division placed within a work by a playwright (usually itself made up of multiple scenes) [ 3 ] or a unit of analysis for dividing a dramatic work into ...

  5. Structure of Handel's Messiah - Wikipedia

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    The oratorio's structure follows the liturgical year: Part I corresponding with Advent, Christmas, and the life of Jesus; Part II with Lent, Easter, the Ascension, and Pentecost; and Part III with the end of the church year—dealing with the end of time. The birth and death of Jesus are told in the words of the prophet Isaiah, the most ...

  6. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    Three-act structure. The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts (acts), often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It was popularized by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting. Based on his recommendation that a play have a "beginning ...

  7. Scene (performing arts) - Wikipedia

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    In filmmaking and video production, a scene is generally thought of as a section of a motion picture in a single location and continuous time made up of a series of shots, [4] which are each a set of contiguous frames from individual cameras from varying angles. A scene is a part of a film, as well as an act, a sequence (longer or shorter than ...

  8. Storyboard - Wikipedia

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    Film. A storyboard for an animated cartoon, showing the number of drawings (~70) needed for an 8-minute film. A film storyboard (sometimes referred to as a shooting board), is essentially a series of frames, with drawings of the sequence of events in a film, similar to a comic book of the film or some section of the film produced beforehand.

  9. Mise-en-scène - Wikipedia

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    Mise en scène by Constant Puyo. An important element of mise-en-scène is set design—the setting of a scene and the objects (props) visible in a scene. [8] Set design can be used to amplify character emotion or to set the mood, which effects the physical, social, psychological, emotional, economic, and cultural significance in the film.