Stage actor and dancer, printed by photogravure, and issued by Japan on October 9, 1997 to commemorate the Grand Opening of the New National Theater, Tokyo, Scott No. 2586.
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The Stanislaw Wyspianski Theatre of Silesia, Katowice was opened in 1907 from Germans. After restoration of Silesia to Poland, in October 1922 it became the Polish Theatre of Katowice.
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (1910-1987) was a French dramatist whose work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce. Here is an image of a stamp featuring portraits of Jean Anouilh as both an older man and a younger man (his career spanned five decades), and a couple of mounted men in medieval attire (presumably a reference to Anouilh's play Becket, ou L'Honneur de Dieu, 1959), designed and engraved by André Lavergne, and issued by Monaco on December 4, 2009, Scott No. 2567, plus a photo of the playwright, and a YouTube link to a clip from the British-American dramatic film Becket (1964), an adaptation of Anouilh's play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p9CiBJfbik
Marin Dr¾iè is considered the finest Croatian Renaissance playwright and prose writer. His most famous play - comedy is Dundo Maroje and was also played in some international theatres.
Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) was a French tragedian whose best known play is Le Cid, a tragicomedy in five acts about the career of the legendary medieval Spanish warrior. Here is an image of a stamp depicting scenes from Le Cid, designed by French artist Pierrette Lambert, engraved by Pierre Albuisson, and issued by Monaco on October 28, 1986 to commemorate the play's 350th anniversary, Scott No. 1548.
Happy Birthday to Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck (1862-1949), a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities, and especially of his dramatic works..." Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Maeterlinck, designed by Swedish artist Lasse Söderberg (1941- ), engraved by Arne Wallhorn, and issued by Sweden on December 10, 1971, Scott No. 909, Facit No. 751A, plus a photo of Maurice Maeterlinck which may have been the model for this stamp's design, and a YouTube link to a recording of English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams's evocative incidental music (1913) for Maeterlinck's Symbolist drama for marionettes, The Death of Tintagiles (1894): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LSoAB-nqv4
The professional theatre Estonia was founded in 1906. Initially playing mainly drama, the theatre gradually came to its first music productions: "Mam`zelle Nitouche" being the first operetta in 1907 and "Das Nachtlager in Granada" the first opera in 1908. The first ballet "Coppelia" was staged in 1922 and in 1928 the first Estonian opera "Vikerlased". The house was destroyed during WWII and was reopened in 1947. (from Eesti post)
Performance of the play Cousin of Saaremaa by Lydia Koidula to mark the 5th anniversary of the Vanemuine musical and theatrical society of Tartu on 6 and 7 July 1870 are regarded as the founding of the Estonian national theatre and of the Vanemuine Theatre. In its 125 years of activity Vanemuine (named after the mythical Estonian God of Song) has produced many notable directors, actors and musicians, staging drama, musical performances and ballet. In 1906 the theatre acquired professional status, marking it with the opening night on 26 August in a Nordic art nouveau house (designed by Finnish architect Armas Elias Lindgren) inaugurated the previous day. The house was destroyed in hostilities in World War II. Today, the Vanemuine Theatre plays in house erected 1967-70. (from Eesti post site)
Dina Galli (1877-1951) was an Italian stage actress known for her comic roles, but she also appeared in fourteen films during her career. Here is an image of a stamp depicting Galli, designed by Egidio Vangelli, printed by photogravure, and issued by Italy on December 2, 1977 to commemorate her birth centenary, Scott No. 1300, plus an image of a signed publicity photo of Dina Galli, and a YouTube link to the first reel of Il birichino di papà ("The Fluffy Dad," 1943), a comedy in which Galli plays the role of "La marchesa Della Bella:"
First he began writing poetry. In 1850 he published his first play Catilina, a tragedy in verse. In 1851 became a stage manager in the National Stage in Bergen. In 1857 became a theater director in the Norwegian Theater in Oslo.
The Théâtre du peuple is a theater located in Bussang, France, built in 1895 by French playwright and poet Maurice "Padre" Pottecher (1867-1960). Here is an image of a stamp featuring a portrait of Pottecher and depicting the theater, designed and engraved by Eugène Lacaque, and issued by France on August 9, 1975 to commemorate the theater's 80th anniversary, Scott No. 1439, Y&T No. 1846.
Here is an image a stamp depicting a "true portrait" of French playwright and actor Molière (1622-1673) in costume as Sganarelle, a character in his comedy Sganarelle, ou Le Cocu imaginaire ("The Imaginary Cuckold"), designed and engraved by Jacques Derrey, and issued by France on October 20, 1973 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Molière's death, Scott No. 1381, Y&T No. 1771, plus an image of another illustration depicting Sganarelle.
Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. One of his notable works is Mother Courage is one of nine plays that Brecht wrote in an attempt to counter the rise of Fascism and Nazism.
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