Nourished by the tales of crusaders, travelers, and merchants, the West had long dreamed of the mirages of the Orient when, in 1704, Antoine Galland provided the first translation of the tales of the Arabian Nights . The Orient, from then on, became fashionable, and fashion was made in the theater.
Rameau's operas, Molière's and Racine's plays, and Voltaire's tragedies abound in lavishly staged turceries. Then the picturesque and sensual oriental enchantment, where the romantics found refuge in the 19th century, would operate even more beautifully thereafter: from the Turkish ceremony of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme to La Caravane du Caire , from Théophile Gautier's La Péri to the Ballets Russes' Shéhérazade , this imperishable scent of exoticism has never ceased to plunge the spectator into a voluptuous intoxication. A review of some of the sumptuous costumes and sets which, from yesterday to today, have installed the Orient of the Arabian Nights on the stages of our theaters.
Costumes from the Arabian Nights.
Blue around - CNCS| N° d'inventaire | 25062 |
| Format | 24 x 30 |
| Détails | 160 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule, 2008 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782912019882 |
Nourished by the tales of crusaders, travelers, and merchants, the West had long dreamed of the mirages of the Orient when, in 1704, Antoine Galland provided the first translation of the tales of the Arabian Nights . The Orient, from then on, became fashionable, and fashion was made in the theater.
Rameau's operas, Molière's and Racine's plays, and Voltaire's tragedies abound in lavishly staged turceries. Then the picturesque and sensual oriental enchantment, where the romantics found refuge in the 19th century, would operate even more beautifully thereafter: from the Turkish ceremony of Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme to La Caravane du Caire , from Théophile Gautier's La Péri to the Ballets Russes' Shéhérazade , this imperishable scent of exoticism has never ceased to plunge the spectator into a voluptuous intoxication. A review of some of the sumptuous costumes and sets which, from yesterday to today, have installed the Orient of the Arabian Nights on the stages of our theaters.