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In a theatre, a box, loge, [1] or opera box is a small, separated seating area in the auditorium or audience for a limited number of people for private viewing of a performance or event. The interior of the Palais Garnier , an opera house , showing the stage and auditorium, the latter including the floor seats and the opera boxes above
In music, a pasticcio or pastiche is an opera or other musical work composed of works by different composers who may or may not have been working together, or an adaptation or localization of an existing work that is loose, unauthorized, or inauthentic.
A list of theater terms, and brief descriptions, listed in alphabetical order. Act: A division of a play, may be further broken down into "scenes". Also, what the performers do on-stage. [1] Ad-lib: When a performer improvises line on-stage. Derived from ad libitum (Latin). [1] Aisle: An open space amongst seating for passage. [2]
La Loge ('The Theatre Box') is an 1874 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is part of the collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [1] The painting depicts a young couple in a box at the Paris theatre. The woman was modeled by Nini Lopez, Renoir's new model who would feature in fourteen of his paintings over the next few years.
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The Italian word opera means "work", both in the sense of the labor done and the result produced. The Italian word in turn derives from the Latin opera.Opera is also the Latin plural of opus, with the same root, but the word opera was a singular Latin noun in its own right, and according to Lewis and Short, in Latin "opus is used mostly of the mechanical activity of work, as that of animals ...
An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name') is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians. Onomastics has applications in data mining, with applications such as named-entity recognition, or recognition of the origin of names.