Entertainment (dance)
See also: Entertainment
A entertainment is a choreographic interlude in a opera or a Suite of dances inserted in a Ballet.
With, it is obligatorily present in the prolog and chacuns of the acts of a lyric Tragédie and a Comedy-ballet, like in the entries of the Opéra-ballet.
This tradition, typically French, remains during all the 19th century and gains the foreigner: Giuseppe Verdi makes of it to in particular use in the Trouvere and Richard Wagner introduces a Bacchanale into Tannhäuser .
The entertainment will cease being obliged only at the beginning of the 20th century, with the Russian Ballets and the transformations of the French opera.
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