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Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas characteristic of suitable for or resembling the opera as an operatic voice...
Theatrical performance
Theatrical performance, a theatrical performance does not mean merely dramatic performance. It includes operatic or other representations or performances, AIR 1966 MP 198. [Madhya Pradesh Municipal Corporation Act (23 of 1956), s. 132 (2)(n)]Theatrical performance, includes operatic or other representation or performances. It must be, so as to include not merely dramatic performances but other performances and representations, than it follows that the expression 'other shows for public amusement' would include a cinema show, Delite Talkies v. Jabalpur Corporation, AIR 1996 MP 298: 1966 MP LJ 687: 1966 Jab LJ 1127....
bel canto
a cantabile style of operatic singing characterized by purity and evenness of tone and a precise but brilliant vocal technique displaying ease and agility...
Theatre
Theatre, a place kept for the public performance of stage-plays (see STAGE-PLAY), which expression includes 'every tragedy, comedy, farce, opera, burletta, interlude, pantomine, or other entertain-ment of the stage.' By the Theatres Act, 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 68), such a place may not be had or kept without a licence from the Lord Chanberlain of the Household of the sovereign in the metropolis, and from the justices of the peace elsewhere, s. 2 of the Act enacting that:-2. It shall not be lawful for any person to have or keep any house or other place of public resort in Great Britain, for the public performance of stage plays, without authority by virtue of letters-patent from Her Majesty, her heirs and successors, or predecessors, or without licence from the Lord Chamberlain of Her Majesty's household for the time being, or from the justices of the peace as hereinafter provided; and every person who shall offend against this enactment shall be liable to forfeit such sum as shall be awa...
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