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The Baroque had a Catholic and conservative character in Spain, following an Italian literary model during the Renaissance. [140] The Hispanic Baroque theatre aimed for a public content with an ideal reality that manifested fundamental three sentiments: Catholic religion, monarchist and national pride and honour originating from the chivalric ...
Opéra-ballet (French: [ɔ.pe.ʁa.ba.lɛ]; plural: opéras-ballets) [1] is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century, [2] combining elements of opera and ballet, [3] "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeenth century". [4]
Lope de Vega renewed the literary life of Spanish theatre when it became mass culture, and with the playwrights Pedro Calderón de la Barca and Tirso de Molina defined the characteristics of Spanish Baroque theatre with great insight into the human condition.
Born when the theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre. As such, he is regarded as one of Spain's foremost dramatists and one of the finest playwrights of world literature. [20] One of his most notable plays is Life is a Dream (1629–1635). He ...
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
The Great Theatre of the World: [A Morality Play] Based on a Theme from Calderón: auto Amar despues de la Muerte: Love After Death: 1959: Campbell, Roy: The Classic Theatre III: Six Spanish Plays, ed. Eric Bentley: blank verse La Vida es Sueño: Life is a Dream: 1959: Campbell, Roy: The Classic Theatre III: Six Spanish Plays, ed. Eric Bentley
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
French theatre in the 16th-century followed the same patterns of evolution as the other literary genres of the period. For the first decades of the century, public theatre remained largely tied to its long medieval heritage of mystery plays, morality plays, farces, and soties, although the miracle play was no longer in vogue.