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The scenario was by Eugène Scribe, and it was choreographed by Jean-Pierre Aumer. This ballet was produced in 1827 at the height of a fashion for stage works incorporating somnambulism. The work was quite popular in Paris and inspired many more works incorporating somnambulism, including Vincenzo Bellini's well-known Italian opera La sonnambula.
The Ars Notoria contains the only known surviving fragment of a book called the Golden Flowers (Latin: Flores Aurei), falsely attributed to Apollonius of Tyana. It is based on this text and consists of its first derivative Latin text, the New Art (Latin: Ars Nova), and other material supplemented by an unknown scribe (or scribes) of the Golden ...
De Vendôme is known for his Ars Versificatoria, a theoretical work on (Latin) versification, and as the author of Milo, an elegiac comedy; and also wrote on the art of letter-writing, the Ars dictaminis, as with the poor student's begging letter: "I am in want. I have no books and no clothes.
The Timeline of Art Nouveau shows notable works and events of Art Nouveau (an international style of art, architecture and applied art) as well as of local movements included in it (Modernisme, Glasgow School, Vienna Secession, Jugendstil, Stile Liberty, Tiffany Style and others). Main events are written in bold.
A 16-year-old New Mexico boy was arrested Saturday morning after he allegedly gunned down his parents and teenage siblings and then drunkenly called 911 to confess to the quadruple homicide ...
Act 4, scene 2 of the original production, set design by Charles-Antoine Cambon and Joseph Thierry. Le prophète (The Prophet) is a grand opera in five acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer, which was premiered in Paris on 16 April 1849.
The new year is right around the corner, and General Mills is giving cereal fans many reasons to celebrate. In December, the Minneapolis-based food conglomerate announced that it's bringing nine ...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two al-Qaeda operatives were expected to plead guilty to planning 9/11. Instead, a D.C. court put those plans on hold.