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La traviata (Italian: [la traviˈaːta,-aˈvjaː-]; The Fallen Woman) [1] [2] is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which he adapted from his own 1848 novel. The opera was originally titled Violetta, after the ...
Pretty Woman is a musical with music and lyrics by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance, and a book by Garry Marshall and J. F. Lawton. [1] The musical is based on the 1990 film of the same name written by Lawton and directed by Marshall.
He criticized the Paris Opera Ballet [8] use of the mask because it restricted the dancer from showing facial expressions that could bear meaning on their characters. Noverre devoted the whole of his Ninth Letter to the subject of masks and wrote, " Destroy the masks and" he argued, "we shall gain a soul, and be the best dancers in the world."
2. "Dancers are made, not born." –Mikhail Baryshnikov 3. "The body says what the words cannot." –Martha Graham 4. "To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
Sometimes, the character will be a foil for another female character who reflects negative stereotypes of uptight or frigid women. [1] According to Nell Damon Galles, the character is "the good girl who made one too many bad decisions—losing her virginity, becoming promiscuous, and eventually entering the dark world of prostitution."
Burlesque theatre became popular around the beginning of the Victorian era.The word "burlesque" is derived from the Italian burla, which means "ridicule or mockery". [2] [3] According to the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Victorian burlesque was "related to and in part derived from pantomime and may be considered an extension of the introductory section of pantomime with the addition ...
Then in going through the dance Make three times a reverence And you will have beautiful clothes, if you go round the circle. and you will embrace whoever you want, and you will kiss the one you love. Long live the month of May! Long live the pretty may! Long live May, pretty May! Long live the beautiful month of May! Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah! Long live ...
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