WebThespis, or The Gods Grown Old, is an operatic extravaganza that was the first collaboration between dramatist W. S. Gilbert and composer Arthur Sullivan.No musical score of Thespis was ever published, and most of the music has been lost.Gilbert and Sullivan went on to become the most famous and successful artistic partnership in …

WebH.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert.It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. H.M.S. Pinafore was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth …

WebAncient Greek theatre was a theatrical culture that flourished in ancient Greece from 700 BC. The city-state of Athens, which became a significant cultural, political, and religious place during this period, was its centre, where the theatre was institutionalised as part of a festival called the Dionysia, which honoured the god Dionysus. Tragedy (late 500 BC), …

WebGreek tragedy is a form of theatre from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited Anatolia.It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy.. Greek tragedy is widely believed to be an extension of the ancient rites carried out in honor of Dionysus, and it heavily influenced the theatre of …

WebThespis d’Icare (en grec : Θέσπις, fl. VI e siècle av. J.-C.) est considéré comme l’inventeur de la tragédie grecque et le premier acteur [1].L'historicité de Thespis a été [2] et reste [3] discutée. La plus ancienne des références à Thespis se trouve dans les Guêpes d'Aristophane [4].La plus ancienne source épigraphique à le mentionner est un fragment …

WebIn 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.The piece was an extravaganza in which the classical Greek gods, grown elderly, are temporarily replaced by a troupe of 19th-century actors and actresses, one of whom is the …

WebStrictly Come Dancing 2022 Semi-Final: Hamza Yassin tops the leaderboard with a Scottish Charleston. Yassin also impressed with a lovely waltz, while Helen Skelton smouldered in her Argentine tango.

WebFoundation is an American science fiction streaming television series created by David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman for Apple TV+, loosely based on the Foundation series of stories by Isaac Asimov.It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell and Leah Harvey. Foundation premiered on September 24, 2021. In October 2021, the series …

WebTespis (en griego antiguo, Θέσπις: Thespis; Icaria, actual Dionýsios, Ática Oriental, fl. ca. 550 - 500 a. C.) fue un dramaturgo griego del siglo VI a. C. Es considerado como el padre del teatro y el primer actor de la Historia.. Se dice que fue el ganador del primer concurso de tragedias durante las Dionisias de Atenas celebradas entre el 536 a. C. y el 533 a. C. Se …

WebThe Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera …

WebHet theater in het oude Griekenland wordt gezien als het begin en de basis van de westerse theatergeschiedenis.In het oude Griekenland was theater een van de belangrijke zaken in het dagelijks leven. Het theater in het oude Griekenland was oorspronkelijk een ritueel in de cultus van Dionysos.Het is uit een godsdienstoefening geëvolueerd, waarbij …

WebWestern culture, also known as Western civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.The term applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Europe by immigration, …

WebDas Theater der griechischen Antike prägte für nahezu tausend Jahre die Kulturgeschichte Griechenlands und gilt als Ursprung der abendländischen Theaterkultur. Es entstand aus einfachen Chorliedern und Maskentänzen, die mit der Zeit um immer komplexere Handlungselemente ergänzt wurden. Die ersten bezeugten …

WebAeschylus (UK: / ˈ iː s k ɪ l ə s /, US: / ˈ ɛ s k ɪ l ə s /; Greek: Αἰσχύλος Aiskhýlos; c. 525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian, and is often described as the father of tragedy. Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.