In fact, many ballet-pantomimes fared better than the operas with which they were performed.
Indeed, some critics looked upon ballet-pantomime characters' silence with great displeasure, and actually suggested that they speak up.
[external_link_head]Like their female counterparts, they were not only ballet dancers, but also mimes and character dancers.
Those in charge of the chorus and the corps de ballet wrote memos, on stationery with the same letterhead, about misbehaviour in the ranks.
These ballets and operas were also closely comparable in appearance.
[external_link offset=1]This, perhaps, is the reason they were judged especially suitable for ballet.
It's like ballet: in order to be angry, you have to be on your toes.
Before, you could learn the actor's craft exactly as a ballet dancer did - that is, automatically, by repeating certain patterns or clichés.
Even though the libretto indicates each divertissement for the ballet, the dancers, here representing priests and demons, certainly also participated in the instrumental airs.
In addition, the story-within-a-story device featured within the plots of many comic and grand operas is common in ballet-pantomimes.
A new system was in order, which would stimulate the creation of large-scale operas, ballets and dramatic works.
[external_link offset=2]Government censors followed the same format in their reports about operas and ballet-pantomimes.
What accounts for the disparity in tone between opera and ballet?
The first act finished with a ballet of stonecutters.
Given these close ties it is not surprising to discover a certain family resemblance between the librettos of operas and ballet-pantomimes.
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