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Performing Arts in Italia
Italian
Performing Arts
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Performing Arts – L’Arto Dello Spettacolo
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What can be considered Performing Arts?
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Dance
Theatre
Opera
Music
Ballet
Italy’s Performing Arts
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Italy has many performing arts and cultural events during
the year. Performances are often held in historic theaters
or beautiful outdoor settings.
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Opera, theater, music, and dance performances are just
the few Arts that Italy is most fond of.
Opera- L’Opera
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Italian opera
 both the art of opera in Italy
 opera in the Italian language.
Many famous operas in Italian were written by foreign
composers
 Handel, Gluck and Mozart.
Works by native Italian composers of the 19th and early 20th
centuries
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Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini
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amongst the most famous operas ever written and today are performed in
opera houses across the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acQkdboQXSQ
Theater- Il teatro
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La Commedia dell’arte
 a form of theatre characterized by masked “types” which began in Italy in
the 16th century and was responsible for the advent of the actresses
and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios.
 Many Famous Italian play writers:
 Luigi Pirandello
 Dario Fo
 Eduardo De Filippo
 Carlo Goldoni
 Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore (Six Characters in Search of an Author
 presents the playwright's views about the isolation of the individual
from society and from himself. This play within a play chronicles six
characters as they seek an author to tell their story, and to present
their real lives on stage.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJYPWr5Kus
Music - La Musica
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The music of Italy
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ranges across a broad spectrum of opera and instrumental
classical music and a body of popular music drawn from both
native and imported sources.
Musica
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traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national
and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society
and in politics.
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Instrumental and vocal classical music is an iconic part of
Italian identity, spanning experimental art music and
international fusions to symphonic music and opera.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K7zrefNxLo
For Classwork and Homework
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Name one famous Italian Opera Composer and mention
one all time famous opera they composed and what the
play is about
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Name one famous Italian Theatre writer and mention one
all time famous play they composed and what the play is
about.
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Tomorrow: Focus on various examples of these famous
performing arts