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Seni
ialah penjelasan kreativiti atau imaginasi. Seni secara umum difahami sebagai tindakan membuat karya yang menggunakan dorongan kreatif manusia dan yang mengandungi makna luar keterangan sederhana. Walaupun seni sering dibezakan daripada kraf tangan dan
kegiatan hobi
dan lain-lain, batas ini kadangkala sukar untuk ditakrifkan. Istilah seni kreatif menunjukkan kumpulan disiplin ilmu yang pokok tujuannya ialah keluaran daripada bahan untuk paparan atau agar penonton menafsirkannya. Oleh itu, seni boleh difahami sebagai merangkumi bentuk-bentuk mulai daripada bentuk-bentuk sastera (menulis
prosa
dan
puisi
); bentuk berasaskan prestasi (
tarian
,
bertindak
,
drama
, dan
muzik
); seni tampak dan "
seni plastik
" (
lukisan
,
patung
,
fotografi
,
ilustrasi
); bentuk-bentuk yang juga mempunyai peranan berfungsi, seperti
seni bina
dan
reka bentuk fesyen
. Seni juga boleh difahami sebagai berkaitan dengan
kreativiti
,
estetika
dan
emosi
kebiasaan.
Her Majesty's Theatre
is a
West End theatre
, located in
the Haymarket
, in the
City of Westminster
. The present building was designed by
Charles J. Phipps
and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
, who established the
Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
at the theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century, Tree produced spectacular productions of
Shakespeare
and other classical works, and the theatre hosted premieres by major playwrights such as
George Bernard Shaw
,
J. M. Synge
,
Noel Coward
and
J. B. Priestley
. Since World War I, the wide flat stage has made the theatre suitable for large-scale musical productions, and the theatre has specialised in hosting
musicals
. The theatre has been home to record-setting musical theatre runs, notably the World War I sensation
Chu Chin Chow
[1]
and the current production,
Andrew Lloyd Webber
's
The Phantom of the Opera
, which has played continuously at Her Majesty's since 1986.
The theatre was established by architect and playwright
John Vanbrugh
, in 1705, as the
Queen's Theatre
. Legally, serious
drama
unaccompanied by music was forbidden in all but the two London
patent theatres
, and so this theatre quickly became an
opera house
. Between 1711 and 1739, more than 25
George Frederick Handel
operas premiered here.
[2]
In the early 19th century, the theatre hosted the opera company that was to move to the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden
, in 1847, and presented the first London performances of
Mozart
's
La clemenza di Tito
,
Cosi fan tutte
and
Don Giovanni
.
[3]
It also hosted the Ballet of her Majesty's Theatre in the mid-19th century, before returning to hosting the London premieres of such famous operas as
Bizet
's
Carmen
and
Wagner
's
Ring Cycle
.
The name of the theatre changes with the gender of the monarch. It first became the
King's Theatre
in 1714 on the accession of
George I
. Most recently, the theatre was known as
His Majesty's Theatre
from 1901 to 1952, and it became Her Majesty's on the accession of
Elizabeth II
. The theatre's capacity is 1,216 seats, and the building was
Grade II* listed
by
English Heritage
in January 1970.
Really Useful Group Theatres
has owned the theatre since 2000.
“Bukanlah kecantikan yang menimbulkan perasaan kasih; kasih itulah yang membuatkan kita melihat keindahan.”
- Leo Tolstoy
- ^
Larkin, Colin (ed).
Guinness Who's Who of Stage Musicals
(Guinness Publishing, 1994)
ISBN 0-85112-756-8
- ^
Handel's Compositions
GFHandel.org, accessed 21 December 2007
- ^
Einstein, Alfred.
Mozart: His Character, His Work
(NY: Oxford University Press, 1945)