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Definition of repertory in English: repertorynounPlural repertories ˈrɛpət(ə)riˈrɛpə(r)ˌtɔri 1mass noun The performance of various plays, operas, or ballets by a company at regular short intervals. as modifier a repertory actor Example sentencesExamples - North Carolina, the company will perform repertory works July 20-22, including Esplanade and Arabesque.
- And in choice of both repertory and production styles, the company's tradition is to be exploratory and innovative.
- After war service he co-directed with Olivier four fabled repertory seasons by the Old Vic Company in the West End: his great Shakespearian creation was Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV.
- A preponderance of live music met the art deco glory of the Paramount Theatre on opening night of Oakland Ballet's third fall repertory program.
- Three shows, described as a Gay Pride Season of Musical Cabaret, will be running in repertory for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, starting July 8.
- I think that premieres and twentieth-century repertory are signs of a progressive spirit; I don't think the same of director-driven opera.
- It set me to thinking about how reactions to the performances of repertory standards have become increasingly generational over the years, and how much expectations have changed.
- Don Quixote entered the Boston Ballet repertory in 1982, with Rudolf Nureyev's staging.
- Sonya Delwaide's Chuchotements and Joanna Haigood's Descending Cords have become standards, and both repertory pieces were beautifully performed.
- End of Civilization has now joined Adult Entertainment, a companion play from George F. Walker's Suburban Motel series, in repertory at Factory Theatre.
- She shares the role in the CanStage production in repertory with white actor Caroline Cave.
- Ruskin Place is Seaside's ‘artist colony,’ with mixed-use buildings and a lawn for the town's repertory theater performances and art shows.
- By juxtaposing older repertory works with a premiere, these veteran Bay Area-based dancemakers offered some sense of their artistic development.
- I love the respect for film that London has, having a National Film Theatre, how all the movie theatres show repertory on the weekends.
- In the later 1700s Covent Garden and Drury Lane continued to provide English operas as part of the six days a week theatrical repertory.
- What a tour de force in a theater hardly equipped to carry off this sort of repertory schedule: the stagehands must have a lot of sleepless nights!
- Asfb begins its first season in August, with four weeks of mixed repertory performances in Santa Fe.
- Brian Wright started writing for theatre, television and radio after several years acting in repertory, cabaret and the West End, including a year in Beyond the Fringe.
- Because of this hodgepodge, the Theatre français de Toronto relies on classical repertory plays such as those by Michel Tremblay that the audience knows.
- The production is back in repertory and still well worth attending, even though there are several alterations, not all of them for the better.
- 1.1 Repertory theatres regarded collectively.
his long apprenticeship in repertory was as satisfying as what he is doing now Example sentencesExamples - As in repertory theater, actors were required to supply their own costumes, and do their own make-up.
- The regional repertory theatres, which had spread throughout Britain after the war, were often adventurous.
- It was such an enormous success that it not only became a staple of Drury Lane's repertory but was also performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields and elsewhere.
- When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years.
- Start getting experience with fringe shows and repertory theatres, particularly those with young designer programmes.
- Despite these differences, film production was similar to the mode of production in theatrical repertory theaters.
- He entered repertory theatre in the late 1940s as an actor, and then worked as a racing driver and manager for the internationally successful Stirling Moss.
- A day in the life of a provincial repertory theatre company, who are visited by the author of their next play.
- The National Film Theatre is one of the best repertory film theatres in London - though less adventurous than the ICA or than it used to be itself.
- He became the first director of Liverpool repertory theatre in 1911, and in 1918 he was awarded an MBE for his services to national entertainment during the First World War.
Synonyms store, supply, stockpile, reserve, hoard, cache, reservoir, accumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load - 1.2count noun A repertory company.
regional repertories and touring companies
2 a fair conspectus of Ferrier's repertory has been preserved for posterity another term for repertoire Example sentencesExamples - For a while, it was one of the most frequently performed operas in the repertory, but its popularity has waned lately and the Metropolitan's current revival almost makes it seem like a novelty.
- If one looks hard, a small but viable repertory of choice American operas does exist.
- After years of backsliding, the New York City Ballet has recaptured the precision that its signature Balanchine repertory demands.
- For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example.
- Canterbury Choral Society is one of those substantial choruses in Britain that can tackle the biggest works in the repertory with absolute confidence.
- The Staatsoper, with its historical Russian connection and classical repertory of romantic/narrative ballets, provides an anchor to tradition.
- The tide is turning on some of these questions, and the growth of ABT's dramatic ballet repertory is a good context for looking back at our recent past.
- Both of Alban Berg's operas rank as James Levine specialties, and both are in the Metropolitan's repertory this season for a few performances each.
- The first woman pupil of Stanford at the Royal College of Music, she was also one of the leading viola-players of her time, and her prize-winning Viola Sonata is now firmly re-established in the regular repertory.
- Classic FM, Naxos and even some programmes on Radio 3 have emphasised repertory over performer, leaving new music without popular, trusted advocates.
- In much of the current Ballet Tech repertory, of course, the issue of first-class classical-dance capability doesn't arise.
- Slatkin has a great reputation for his performances of the British repertory.
- I also had twenty Mozart Concerti in my repertory.
- Porgy must be one of the longest and most physically demanding roles in the repertory, and Alvy Powell meets the challenge eloquently despite occasional traces of vocal strain.
- The Washington Ballet's varied repertory attracted Gaither too.
- As an avid dance fan, I'm amazed at the vast repertory that ballet dancers must perform.
- A credential-laden custodian of the Tudor repertory, Donald Mahler, was entrusted with the staging so that nothing would be lost in the translation.
- It's not merely worth the occasional revival; it should be part of the active repertory of every major opera house.
- We have a lot of ballets in our repertory, and we keep adding new ones.
- Its repertory featured Ballet Imperial, Concerto Barocco, Billy the Kid, The Filling Station, and Apollon musagète.
- 2.1 A repository or collection, especially of information.
most countries produce several periodical repertories of useful information Example sentencesExamples - I blanch only slightly when the Wigmore Hall is referred to as a museum: after all, much of our repertory is from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Synonyms store, storing place, storehouse, depository
Origin Mid 16th century (denoting an index or catalogue): from late Latin repertorium, from Latin repert- 'found, discovered', from the verb reperire. Sense 1 (arising from the fact that a company has a ‘repertory’ of pieces for performance) dates from the late 19th century. Definition of repertory in US English: repertorynounˈrepə(r)ˌtôrēˈrɛpə(r)ˌtɔri 1The performance of various plays, operas, or ballets by a company at regular short intervals. as modifier a repertory actor Example sentencesExamples - I love the respect for film that London has, having a National Film Theatre, how all the movie theatres show repertory on the weekends.
- Asfb begins its first season in August, with four weeks of mixed repertory performances in Santa Fe.
- End of Civilization has now joined Adult Entertainment, a companion play from George F. Walker's Suburban Motel series, in repertory at Factory Theatre.
- North Carolina, the company will perform repertory works July 20-22, including Esplanade and Arabesque.
- In the later 1700s Covent Garden and Drury Lane continued to provide English operas as part of the six days a week theatrical repertory.
- By juxtaposing older repertory works with a premiere, these veteran Bay Area-based dancemakers offered some sense of their artistic development.
- A preponderance of live music met the art deco glory of the Paramount Theatre on opening night of Oakland Ballet's third fall repertory program.
- Ruskin Place is Seaside's ‘artist colony,’ with mixed-use buildings and a lawn for the town's repertory theater performances and art shows.
- She shares the role in the CanStage production in repertory with white actor Caroline Cave.
- Don Quixote entered the Boston Ballet repertory in 1982, with Rudolf Nureyev's staging.
- I think that premieres and twentieth-century repertory are signs of a progressive spirit; I don't think the same of director-driven opera.
- What a tour de force in a theater hardly equipped to carry off this sort of repertory schedule: the stagehands must have a lot of sleepless nights!
- It set me to thinking about how reactions to the performances of repertory standards have become increasingly generational over the years, and how much expectations have changed.
- Sonya Delwaide's Chuchotements and Joanna Haigood's Descending Cords have become standards, and both repertory pieces were beautifully performed.
- Brian Wright started writing for theatre, television and radio after several years acting in repertory, cabaret and the West End, including a year in Beyond the Fringe.
- Three shows, described as a Gay Pride Season of Musical Cabaret, will be running in repertory for four weeks at the Jermyn Street Theatre, starting July 8.
- Because of this hodgepodge, the Theatre français de Toronto relies on classical repertory plays such as those by Michel Tremblay that the audience knows.
- After war service he co-directed with Olivier four fabled repertory seasons by the Old Vic Company in the West End: his great Shakespearian creation was Falstaff in both parts of Henry IV.
- And in choice of both repertory and production styles, the company's tradition is to be exploratory and innovative.
- The production is back in repertory and still well worth attending, even though there are several alterations, not all of them for the better.
- 1.1 Repertory theaters regarded collectively.
Example sentencesExamples - When I graduated, I got jobs in professional theatres, repertory, and stock theatres in Canada for a couple of years.
- Despite these differences, film production was similar to the mode of production in theatrical repertory theaters.
- A day in the life of a provincial repertory theatre company, who are visited by the author of their next play.
- Start getting experience with fringe shows and repertory theatres, particularly those with young designer programmes.
- As in repertory theater, actors were required to supply their own costumes, and do their own make-up.
- He became the first director of Liverpool repertory theatre in 1911, and in 1918 he was awarded an MBE for his services to national entertainment during the First World War.
- The National Film Theatre is one of the best repertory film theatres in London - though less adventurous than the ICA or than it used to be itself.
- He entered repertory theatre in the late 1940s as an actor, and then worked as a racing driver and manager for the internationally successful Stirling Moss.
- It was such an enormous success that it not only became a staple of Drury Lane's repertory but was also performed at Lincoln's Inn Fields and elsewhere.
- The regional repertory theatres, which had spread throughout Britain after the war, were often adventurous.
Synonyms store, supply, stockpile, reserve, hoard, cache, reservoir, accumulation, quantity, pile, heap, load - 1.2 A repertory company.
2 another term for repertoire Example sentencesExamples - A credential-laden custodian of the Tudor repertory, Donald Mahler, was entrusted with the staging so that nothing would be lost in the translation.
- Its repertory featured Ballet Imperial, Concerto Barocco, Billy the Kid, The Filling Station, and Apollon musagète.
- Classic FM, Naxos and even some programmes on Radio 3 have emphasised repertory over performer, leaving new music without popular, trusted advocates.
- The tide is turning on some of these questions, and the growth of ABT's dramatic ballet repertory is a good context for looking back at our recent past.
- If one looks hard, a small but viable repertory of choice American operas does exist.
- It's not merely worth the occasional revival; it should be part of the active repertory of every major opera house.
- Both of Alban Berg's operas rank as James Levine specialties, and both are in the Metropolitan's repertory this season for a few performances each.
- We have a lot of ballets in our repertory, and we keep adding new ones.
- In much of the current Ballet Tech repertory, of course, the issue of first-class classical-dance capability doesn't arise.
- The Washington Ballet's varied repertory attracted Gaither too.
- Porgy must be one of the longest and most physically demanding roles in the repertory, and Alvy Powell meets the challenge eloquently despite occasional traces of vocal strain.
- Slatkin has a great reputation for his performances of the British repertory.
- The Staatsoper, with its historical Russian connection and classical repertory of romantic/narrative ballets, provides an anchor to tradition.
- As an avid dance fan, I'm amazed at the vast repertory that ballet dancers must perform.
- After years of backsliding, the New York City Ballet has recaptured the precision that its signature Balanchine repertory demands.
- For a while, it was one of the most frequently performed operas in the repertory, but its popularity has waned lately and the Metropolitan's current revival almost makes it seem like a novelty.
- I also had twenty Mozart Concerti in my repertory.
- The first woman pupil of Stanford at the Royal College of Music, she was also one of the leading viola-players of her time, and her prize-winning Viola Sonata is now firmly re-established in the regular repertory.
- Canterbury Choral Society is one of those substantial choruses in Britain that can tackle the biggest works in the repertory with absolute confidence.
- For reasons having little to do with music, none of the dances here have held on to the repertory, as the Stravinsky and Copland ballets have, for example.
- 2.1 A repository or collection, especially of information or retrievable examples.
Example sentencesExamples - I blanch only slightly when the Wigmore Hall is referred to as a museum: after all, much of our repertory is from the 18th and 19th centuries.
Synonyms store, storing place, storehouse, depository
Origin Mid 16th century (denoting an index or catalog): from late Latin repertorium, from Latin repert- ‘found, discovered’, from the verb reperire. Sense 1 (arising from the fact that a company has a ‘repertory’ of pieces for performance) dates from the late 19th century. |