Performing Arts in American

There was nothing particularly American about the performing arts in America at the beginning of the 20tfa century. The great majority of the opera singers at the famous Met (Metropolitan Opera House) in New York came from overseas. Most orchestral players were immigrants recently arrived from Europe, who played for meager wages. Theatre productions were conventional, and ballet rarely strayed from the well-worn classical path. Since those days, the performing arts have taken a great leap forward.

Many critics of America still judge her approach to the performing arts by the lavish musicals and shows producers export to foreign TV networks and movie houses. These critics seem unaware that modern America both values and encourages Omega Replica high artistic achievement. In most universities there is a center for the performing arts, where there are classes in theatre, opera and dance.
Music and opera festivals are becoming a feature of American life. 7) At the Santa Fe Opera Festival, held in the superb new opera house which rises out of the desert a few miles from the city, talented young American singers spend six weeks of the summer as apprentices, singing in the chorus and acting as understudies to international stars. Santa Fe’ s repertoire contains not only the better known operas, but also new works by American composers , for the directors believe in encouraging new operas, even if they may never be performed again.

Oklahoma’s spring and summer Festivals attract hundreds of thousands of visitors. There are free performances of dancing and plays and puppet shows in the parks, and the performers who encourage everyone to join in. American Festivals expect audience participation.

The American theater is centered on Broadway in New York City. Much serious drama is staged in less lavish productions at off-off-Broadway theaters. There are off-off-Broadway theaters.

America’s greatest contribution to the performing arts, however, is in the realm of dance. Martha Graham is the mother of modern dance. 9) A dancer should be able to express in movement what he feels internally and to create a communion between himself and those who watch him.

There are also other centers of the performing arts in the USA. Lincoln Center, the New York State Theater, and the Avery Fisher Hall Audemar Piguet Replica are some very famous ones. There are uninformed Europeans who still maintain that the USA is a nation of philistines. 10) Yet the cultural life of some of the big American cities is richer than that of many European capitals.