Oberammergau, Germany is home to a famous one of these performances that dramatize the Easter story
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Theatre Traditions: East and West - Northern State University  Aug 11, 2016 ... The first record, a stone tablet, we have of a dramatic performance, the Abydos ... One of the elements of these celebrations was the dithyramb, a choral ode ... Greek mythology is the legends and stories behind the Greek gods. ..... Probably the most famous Passion Play is the 16 act, 5 hour Oberammergau...
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Jeopary Questions page 1977 - WHAT'S THAT SUPPOSED TO BE ...  ODD WORDS: A canephora is a statue of a woman bearing one of these on her head  LET'S GO ... EASTER PARADE: Oberammergau, Germany is home to a famous one of these performances that dramatize the Easter story  DOWN TO RIO:...
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Passion Play - Wikipedia  The Passion Play or Easter pageant is a dramatic presentation depicting the Passion of Jesus ... From these humble beginnings the Passion Play developed very rapidly, since in .... efforts were made in Catholic Germany, particularly in Bavaria and the Tyrol, .... Passion Plays are biblical dramas that portray the Easter story.
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Early Theatre: Greek, Roman and Medieval - Northern State University  Oct 22, 2010 ... One of the elements of these celebrations was the dithyramb, ... Greek mythology is the legends and stories behind the Greek gods. ... the competition for performance at the City Dionysia, would submit four ... To the left is a view of the ruins of the Theatre of Dionysus, the fifth century home of the tragedies of...
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Oberammergau Passion Play - Wikipedia  Jesus Christ and John, 1900 performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play. Henry Ford attending the Passion Play in 1930. Oberammergau Passion Play is a passion play performed since 1634 as a tradition by the inhabitants of the village of Oberammergau, Bavaria, Germany. ... The evolution of the Passion Play was about the same as that of the Easter...
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Opera 2 Flashcards | Quizlet  The title character of this opera addresses his son in the aria "Sois immobile" ("hold ..... Like many of his works, this composer's "Tannhauser" is based on Germanic .... A story by Edgar Allan Poe inspired Philip Glass' opera "The Fall of the ..... Even Ebenezer would enjoy "Mr. Scrooge", an opera inspired by this famous story.
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Agnes of God - Wikipedia  Agnes of God is a play by John Pielmeier which tells the story of a novice nun who gives birth ... The play has enjoyed a revival among non-Catholic women's groups, who believe it examines important moral and spiritual issues that women must face. ... Pielmeier's plot features Sister Agnes, a young and ignorant novice of...
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Chapel Imperial, Hofburg - VIENNA  Now. Forever  Lipizzaners giving a performance. Map. Map. Tourist-Info. Tourist information. Close ... You are here: ... The Hofmusikkapelle consists exclusively of a group of the Vienna Boys' Choir and ... Let yourself be enchanted by the bell-like voices of the young boys, who are ... Hofburg Chapel (Hofburgkapelle) in the Imperial Palace.
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Ye Gods! Lyric's 'Die Walkure' is full-throated operatic delight ...  Apr 1, 2005 ... In "Die Walkure," you've got an incestuous relationship between a twin brother ... his covert desire to protect the hero Siegmund from being killed by Hunding, ... cycles, with Michelle DeYoung as his sister/bride and Eric Halfvar-son as his foe. ... The final "Ring" opera, "Gotterdammerung," opens Saturday.
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Das Rheingold: Performance History - OperaGlass  Das Rheingold: Performance History ... Wotan : August Kindermann (also created roles of Wotan in Die Walkre and Titurel in Parsifal); Loge : Heinrich Vogl (also created same role in the Ring, and role of Siegmund in Die Walkre); Donner : Karl ... [ Opera Information Page | Composer Page | OperaGlass Main Page ]...
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Medieval theatre - Wikipedia  A larger number of plays survive from France and Germany in this period and some type of religious dramas were performed in nearly every European country in...
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J! Archive - Show #4768, aired 2005-05-04  ... name Etzel in this 13th c. German epic poem later adapted into a Wagner work .... This man's work, "Christ at the Sea of Galilee", is seen here...
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Classical Notes - Classical Classics - Beethoven: Symphony # 9 ...  Beethoven even had grafted a chorus onto the end of his 1808 Choral Fantasia, ... the now-famous "Ode to Joy" melody that Beethoven, a deliberate and thoughtful ... to the perverse  a song for a children's chorus in Auschwitz, and an emblem of .... In 1951 he rededicated the Bayreuth Festival, the symbolic core of German...
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Bavarian Village Divided over Updates to World-Famous Passion Play  May 15, 2010 ... For almost 400 years, the residents of the Bavarian village of Oberammergau have performed their world-famous Passion Play, a reenactment...
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A History of Ring Cycle productions. Or: Whatever Became of the ...  Oct 7, 2013 ... "Chaos, as Wagner himself sometimes suggested, is likely to be the rule ... his own festival theatre at Bayreuth to produce the Ring , Wagner also ... to view the production of her husband's work outside Bayreuth as a ..... of 1976 is perhaps well enough known by now not to need description, .... Parsifal Freud.
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Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. In 1633, the residents of the small Bavarian village of ... About every 10 years since 1634, the residents of Oberammergau, nestled in the foothills of ... Yet controversy has consistently dogged the Passion play: its version of the suffering, ... Afterwards, we are told, the illness subsided.
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Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's ... - Amazon.com  Editorial Reviews. Amazon.com Review. In 1633, the residents of the small Bavarian village of ... The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and .... About every 10 years since 1634, the residents of Oberammergau, nestled in the foothills of the ... Afterwards, we are told, the illness subsided.
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Easter Parade (film) - Wikipedia  Easter Parade is a 1948 American musical film starring Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Peter Lawford, featuring music by Irving Berlin, including some of Astaire...
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Loney's Show Notes - New York Theatre Wire  Aug 18, 2001 ... Fatty Batty "Fledermaus" .... The Dutch acting-version of Visconti's film is played in German in ... This means not only premiering dubious new music, operas, and ... whose often glamorous, sumptuous stagings of Mozart, Strauss, and ...... Hans Neuenfels' staging of Johann Strauss Jr's classic operetta is not...
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Oktoberfest - Wikipedia  Oktoberfest is the world's largest Volksfest Held annually in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, it is a ... The Munich Oktoberfest originally took place in the 16-day period leading up ... To honour the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, ..... Brurosl (Hacker-Pschorr)  Translates as "brewers Rosemary".
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Lively Arts - Opera  ... Los Angeles Opera's recent presentation of Richard Wagner's LOHENGRIN. First performed in Germany in 1850, LOHENGRIN--the last opera Wagner wrote ... his epic Ring cycle--tells the story of a knight in shining armor (in this production, ... In traditional productions, Lohengrin arrives in a boat drawn by a white swan;...