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Achim Freyer
(1934– )German designer and director. Known principally for his work with opera, Freyer trained and worked as a scene designer in East Berlin before emigrating to the West in the ...
Adolphe Appia
(1862–1928),French-speaking Swiss artist whose theories on stage design, and particularly on stage lighting, had an immense influence on 20th-century methods of play production. He rejected the flat ...
Africa
This entry summarizes some of the main features of indigenous sub-Saharan African theatre and performance, concentrating on pre-colonial forms. For the syncretic forms which emerged after colonial ...
Alain Boublil
(b. Tunis, 5 March 1941) and(b. Vannes, France, 6 July 1944)Composer Schönberg first teamed up with lyricist and musical book writer Boublil on a rock opera, La Révolution ...
Alberto Savinio
(1892–1952).Writer, composer, and painter. Born in Greece, he lived in Munich (1906–10) and, with his brother, Giorgio De Chirico, in Paris (1910–15), where he met Apollinaire and Picasso. In ...
Aleksandrinsky Theatre
Named after Nicholas I's consort, Empress Aleksandra, the playhouse was one of two imperial theatres in St Petersburg and housed its principal acting company. The original troupe, headed by Ivan ...
Alessandro Sanquirico
(born 27 July 1777 in Milan, died 12 March 1849 in Milan), Italian painter and set designer. Sanquirico first worked for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan in 1805, and ...
Alessandro Striggio
(b Mantua, 1535; d Mantua, 1592).It. composer. Prin. composer at court of Medicis in Florence in 1560s, writing intermedi for ceremonial occasions. Visited Eng. as political emissary 1567. Wrote ...
Alessandro the Younger Striggio
(c.1573–1630),Italian musician, diplomat, librettist, and son of Alessandro Striggio the Elder, whose works he published posthumously. He studied law at Mantua, carried out ambassadorial duties for ...
Alexander Moissi
(1880–1935),German actor of Italian extraction, born in Albania where a drama school has been named after him. He played his first speaking part in German at Prague in 1902 ...
Alfréd Radok
(1914–76)Czech director and playwright. After the war he staged operas and operettas, usually with Svoboda's scenography. In 1948 he entered the Czech National Theatre but was dismissed, for ...
Algiers
(Al-Djazair)Capital of Algeria and centre of its political, economic, social, and cultural life. A major port, Algiers was always open to outside influences, and its modern theatre developed, like ...
Alison Chitty
(1948– )English scenographer. As resident designer at the National Theatre she designed over a dozen productions in eight years, ranging from Shepard's Fool for Love (directed by Gill, 1984) to ...
André Barsacq
(b. Theodosia, Crimea, 24 Jan. 1909; d. Paris, 3 Feb. 1973)Designer and director. After moving to France and working for Dullin as a designer, he collaborated with Saint-Denis and ...
André Gide
(1869–1951)French novelist, essayist, critic, and dramatist. His fiction, interesting both for its formal experimentation and its teasing exploration of sexuality and morality, includes a number of ...
Andreini family
Italian professional practitioners of commedia dell'arte and related genres. The Tuscan Francesco (1548–1624) embarked on a theatrical career in the late 1570s, and married the young Paduan Isabella ...
Anton Rubinstein
(b Vikhvatintsi, Podolsk district, 16/28 Nov. 1829; d Peterhof [now Petrodvorets], nr St Petersburg, 8/20 Nov. 1894).Russian composer and pianist. As a pianist he was a child prodigy, travelling ...
Antonio Buero-Vallejo
(1916–2000),Spanish dramatist, whose Historia de una escalera (Story of a Staircase, 1949), set in a tenement slum, won the Lope de Vega Prize and marked the ascendancy of social ...
António José da Silva
(1705–39)Portuguese playwright. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he grew up and studied in Lisbon during the heyday of the Portuguese baroque. Known as the Jew (he was a ‘New ...
aria
(It.).Air. From the time of A. Scarlatti in the 18th cent. onwards this has had the definite implication of a more or less lengthy and well‐developed solo vocal piece in ABA form normally called a da ...
