Lever de rideau

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A lever de rideau (French for raising the curtain ) is a short, less demanding play in French theater that is performed as a prelude to the main part of a performance, usually on the proscenium , the part of the stage that is in front of the Curtain is located. In terms of the nature of what is presented, it roughly corresponds to the interlude that was given between acts or images of a performance. Proverbes dramatiques , for example, were played as lever de rideau, small pieces in which proverbs or general principles of life are explained and illustrated. But it could also be a whole one- act play, often in the style of an early operetta , such as the curtain raiser in the London theater . In this tradition, the Schauspielhaus Zürich performed the play L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine by Eugène Marin Labiche in 2006 following the Lever de rideau Vingt-Six by Georges Courteline .

The term Lever de rideau was first used in this sense in 1826.

Work title

To this day, this term is mainly used as a title:

  • Lever de Rideau is the title of several music albums, including Mafia Trece,
  • Le lever de rideau is the title of a film by Jean-Pierre Marchand with Serge Gainsbourg (1973),
  • Lever De Rideau: Histoire Des Théâtres Privés De Paris is the title of a book by Jean-Paul Caracalla, Denoël Verlag, Paris 1994, ISBN 2-207-24155-6 .
  • Lever de Rideau - the scene of the curtain is the title of a lecture performance by Sibylle Peters and Gabriele Brandstetter (2004),
  • Un Lever de rideau is the title of a short film by François Ozon (2006).

literature

  • Rainer Hess et al .: Literary studies dictionary for Romanists . 3. Edition. Francke, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-7720-1724-X , p. 203.