Una obra a la Italiana
English translation: a proscenium play / production
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| Spanish to English translations [PRO] Art/Literary - Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / Drama/theatre | |||||||
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commedia dell'arte style Explanation: Could be related to the Italian commedia dell'arte, but not 100% on this. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/127742/commedia-de... Good luck! |
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An Italian-style peace/art/drama/etc Explanation: those well versed in styles of drama will know the history of the expression, but it is still what it is: Italian-style art or work, or drama, etc. Suffices to translate it as it is. It simply refers to Italian mannerism, among others, in the arts. Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism Reference: http://www.amazon.com/Divorzio-AllItaliana-Divorce-Divorcio-... |
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a proscenium play / production Explanation: The expression "teatro a la italiana", in Spanish, refers to theatrical performance in a theatre with a proscenium stage (a stage with a proscenium arch at the front: that is, a theatre in which there is a clear division between the stage and the auditorium, there is no audience space at the sides of the stage (the stage has wings) and there is a front curtain in the proscenium arch. This kind of theatre, the conventional kind from the eighteenth century onwards that we are all used to, is also sometimes referred to as a "fourth-wall" theatre, because the stage space is like a box and the front of it is like the fourth wall of the box through which we see it. It is contrasted with an Elizabethan-style Shakespearean theatre (like the Globe), which has a thrust stage sticking out into the auditorium with the audience all round it. These configurations have major implications for staging, of course. It's called "a la italiana" because its ancestry is conventionally traced back to the early seventeenth-century Teatro Farnese in Parma, and indeed such theatres did exist in Spain in that period, at court. The English term for this kind of theatre is usually a proscenium theatre, and "una obra" could be called a proscenium play, a play written for or at least performed in a proscenium theatre, or in certain contexts you might refer to a proscenium production. There have been some French questions on theatre "à l'italienne": http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/architecture/811... http://www.proz.com/kudoz/french_to_english/cinema_film_tv_d... "Can you tell us about your proscenium plays? In 1988, we decided to do a proscenium play again after a gap of a decade." https://books.google.es/books?id=-acDoLv-sigC&pg=PA83&lpg=PA... "And there is the old problem that Brook's Dream was actually a proscenium format for a non-proscenium play, so that it had more reason to go pear-shaped." https://books.google.es/books?id=N2V7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108&lpg=P... "Because the audience views a proscenium production from one direction and through a frame, Eigsti suggests that the audience sees the stage as a picture:" https://books.google.es/books?id=NTIMkqfcj7AC&pg=PA66&lpg=PA... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 37 mins (2015-04-15 11:16:18 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Other terms for this kind of theatre have been used. In this book it's called a "picture-frame theatre": https://books.google.es/books?id=eMYqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA52&lpg=PA... But be careful of "endstage", the asker's final choice in one of the French questions mentioned. This term may be applied by some to a proscenium theatre but it's usually applied to an open stage (as in the box I've just cited). -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 2 hrs (2015-04-15 13:19:57 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- To illustrate the Spanish expression: "Abel no quería una cuarta pared para esta función, ni hacer una obra a la italiana y distanciada, por lo que el escenario del Romea vuelve a incluir gradas sobre si" http://es.teatrebarcelona.com/revista/folk-vull-desarmar-les... An "obra a la italiana" distances the audience because they are set back from the stage; having seating on the stage itself, as these people are proposing, is the antithesis of an "obra a la italiana". So it definitely does refer to a play, or a production of a play, in a "teatro a la italiana". Italian doesn't refer here at all to an "Italian" style of drama. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 6 hrs (2015-04-15 16:49:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- You're welcome! I'm sure it's the meaning. I used to teach this stuff! |
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Italian style piece Explanation: Whereas proscenium may be the proper term for the specific approach to theatre design, "Italian style theatre" captures more generally the genre of una obra a la Italiana. "A la" in Spanish generally translates into English something like "in the style of x" or "x style" Reference: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1542181/theatre-de... |
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| Reference Reference information: Teatro a la italiana -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 42 mins (2015-04-15 11:20:44 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Sorry, that should be: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_a_la_italiana Reference: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teatro_a_la_italianahttp:// |
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