NOUN
- Italian comedy of the 16th to 18th centuries improvised from standardized situations and stock characters
How To Use commedia dell'arte In A Sentence
- I am sorry to say that stereotypes are rooted in reality and, like the figures of commedia dell'arte, the roles of women in Italian society are fixed. Frederic Whyte: The Long-Overdue Demise of Silvio Berlusconi
- Pag cleverly uses a commedia dell'arte troupe to enact a verismo tragedy. Top 50 operas
- Michael Yeargen's set—inspired by pictures of a 17th-century Italian theater and commedia dell'arte—featured a raised wooden platform, candles for stage lighting, visible weights and pulleys for scenery changes, onstage devices for generating thunder and lightning, and an ancient, doddering stage manager who cued assistants and cranked levers. A Naughty Romp From Rossini
- In turn, the state, blustering about the end of civilization like the swaggering capitano of the commedia dell'arte, plays the villainous authority who thwarts the inamorati.
- Our favourite restaurant there was Archimede, whose vigilant padrone and busy staff put on a bustling show like something out of the commedia dell'arte.
- Roberts' piece is described as a "virtuosic comedy thriller" in which she plays 13 characters while paying tribute to commedia dell'arte, classic movies and Kansas City history. KansasCity.com: Front Page
- Perhaps C17th gardens in northern Italy really did have lawned spaces where commedia dell'arte troupes played. Archive 2009-07-01
- The camp combines classical theater forms such as commedia dell'arte with the great outdoors, performing at spaces such as Skyland Amphitheatre in the Shenandoah Valley. Appreciating the tenor of opera company life
- Their wacky brand of physical comedy took its inspiration from a classic European theater style called commedia dell'arte. KUOW 94.9 Puget Sound Public Radio
- From the commedia dell'arte to Jackie Chan, the pratfall and other seemingly unpremeditated mishaps of physical humor have had a timeless appeal.
