Arts 9 - Western Classical Plays/Opera Part 3

Theater means ―place of seeing, but it is more than the buildings where performance take place.

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European theater began in Rome.

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One of the most prominent person who opposed theater was Queen Elizabeth I.

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Ballet developed and flourished from Italy to France with the help of Catherine de' Medici, (Queen of France).

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During the Baroque period, the theater was richly decorated, and the multiplicity of plot turns and a variety of situations characteristic of Mannerism (a variety of approaches or intellectual sophistication as well as using artificial qualities of the play) were succeeded by the opera.

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Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text called a libreto, and with the absence of a musical score

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Victor Marie Hugo is considered as one of the greatest and best known French writer.

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The concept of decorum (meaning right and proper audience behavior was applied in the Renaissance Period.

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The main concept of the Neoclassical plays were to entertain and teach lesson.

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During the Renaissance, theater performances were not allowed throughout Europe.

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