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‖ stagione Opera and Ballet.|staˈdʒone|
[It., lit. ‘season’.]
(See quot. 1978.) Freq. attrib. Also in Comb., as ‖ stagione lirica [lit. ‘lyrical season’], the opera season of an Italian theatre.
1946E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Music, Stagione,..the term is used esp. for an opera season. 1963Times 19 Feb. 15/3 Como's Teatro Sociale..has opened its stagione lirica for 1963 with a work by Verdi. Ibid. 20 Feb. 16/7 The stagione and abonnement system (necessitating unvaried programmes on a subscription throughout the season), while working well for opera, is hard on the ballet. 1970Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 11/5 He..examined the problems of opera in English and the ‘stagione’ versus repertory systems. 1978Ld. Drogheda Double Harness xxi. 289 The repertory system meant running a large number of different operas on consecutive nights, whereas stagione (literally ‘season’ in Italian) meant grouping a series of performances of one opera fairly closely together, performed with basically identical casts and conductor. |