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YES, VIRGINIA, ANOTHER BALLO TRAGICO: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF PORTUGAL'S BALLET D'ACTION LIBRETTI FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Pinheiro, Ligia Ravenna
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9956-185X
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429443828

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2015, Doctor of Philosophy, Ohio State University, Dance Studies.
The Real Theatro de Sao Carlos de Lisboa employed Italian choreographers from its inauguration in 1793 to the middle of the nineteenth century. Many libretti for the ballets produced for the S. Carlos Theater have survived and are now housed in the National Library of Portugal. This dissertation focuses on the narratives of the libretti in this collection, and their importance as documentation of ballets of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, from the inauguration of the S. Carlos Theater in 1793 to 1850. This period of dance history, which has not received much attention by dance scholars, links the earlier baroque dance era of the eighteenth century with the style of ballet of the 1830s to the 1850s. Portugal had been associated with Italian art and artists since the beginning of the eighteenth century. This artistic relationship continued through the final decades of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century. The majority of the choreographers working in Lisbon were Italian, and the works they created for the S. Carlos Theater followed the Italian style of ballet d'action. Libretti are documented accounts of choreography of this period and contain important information regarding the style of the ballets produced in Lisbon. The narratives of the ballets in these libretti reveal the style of works produced in Lisbon from the late eighteenth to the middle of the nineteenth centuries: the ballet d action that relied on the use of pantomime and gestures to tell stories. The importance of pantomime in ballets of the period covered in this investigation becomes evident in the analysis of several scenarios of ballets produced in Lisbon. This salient characteristic of ballets of the period emerges through the plot developments of the ballets d action produced in Portugal.
Karen Eliot (Advisor)
249 p.
Dance
libretti; ballet d action; Portugal; ballet history; pantomime; dance history-nineteenth century; ballet history-nineteenth century; Italian ballet history; Lisbon ballet history; Italian ballet pantomime

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  • Pinheiro, L. R. (2015). YES, VIRGINIA, ANOTHER BALLO TRAGICO: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF PORTUGAL'S BALLET D'ACTION LIBRETTI FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429443828

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pinheiro, Ligia. YES, VIRGINIA, ANOTHER BALLO TRAGICO: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF PORTUGAL'S BALLET D'ACTION LIBRETTI FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. 2015. Ohio State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429443828.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pinheiro, Ligia. "YES, VIRGINIA, ANOTHER BALLO TRAGICO: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF PORTUGAL'S BALLET D'ACTION LIBRETTI FROM THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1429443828

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