Polichinelle
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Polichinelle is French
for the Commedia dell'arte
character Pulcinella
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It may also refer to:
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
for the Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte
Commedia dell'arte is a form of theatre characterized by masked "types" which began in Italy in the 16th century, and was responsible for the advent of the actress and improvised performances based on sketches or scenarios. The closest translation of the name is "comedy of craft"; it is shortened...
character Pulcinella
Pulcinella
Pulcinella, ; often called Punch or Punchinello in English, Polichinelle in French, is a classical character that originated in the commedia dell'arte of the 17th century and became a stock character in Neapolitan puppetry....
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It may also refer to:
- Polichinelle (album)Polichinelle (album)Polichinelle is The Prayer Boat's second full-length album, released on March 20, 2001 on Atlantic/Setanta records.-Track listing:-External links:**...
, 2001 The Prayer Boat album - Polichinelle, 1962 Edith PiafÉdith PiafÉdith Piaf , born Édith Giovanna Gassion, was a French singer and cultural icon who became widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer. Her singing reflected her life, with her specialty being ballads...
song from album Les Amants De Teruel - Polichinelle, 1967 France GallFrance GallFrance Gall is a popular French yé-yé singer.Gall was married to, and had a successful singing career in partnership with, French singer-songwriter Michel Berger....
song - Polichinelle, a band whose members include Bubu and Serafina Ouistiti
- Polichinelle, a piece for solo piano by Sergei RachmaninoffSergei RachmaninoffSergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...
, Morceaux de fantaisieMorceaux de FantaisieMorceaux de fantaisie , Op. 3, is a set of five piano solo pieces composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1892...
(1892) Op. 3, No. 4. - Polichinelle, the little children or clowns in The NutcrackerThe NutcrackerThe Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is adapted from E.T.A. Hoffmann's story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King". It was given its première at the Mariinsky Theatre in St...
ballet who emerge from Mother Ginger's enormous hoop skirt to do a short dance - Polichinelle Couloir near La Grave, France where the American extreme skier Doug CoombsDoug CoombsDoug Coombs was an American alpine skier and mountaineer who helped to pioneer the sport of extreme skiing, both in North America and worldwide.- Biography :...
died in a fall.