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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
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.
An opera production of Ihitai 'Avei'a – Star Navigator at a 'block box' events centre in Auckland, New Zealand Backstage area of the Vienna State Opera. A theater building or structure contains spaces for an event or performance to take place, usually called the stage, and also spaces for the audience, theater staff, performers and crew before and after the event.
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 ...
In the 19th-century United States, many theaters were given the name "opera house", even ones where opera was seldom if ever performed. Opera was viewed as a more respectable art form than theater; calling a local theater an "opera house" therefore served to elevate it and overcome objections from those who found the theater morally objectionable.
The name of the opera should be in its original language except: When the opera is commonly known in English-speaking nations by another title (i.e. The Marriage of Figaro). When the opera's full original title is widely known in an abbreviated form (i.e. I Lombardi). Capitalization See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization).
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given.
Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).