stagionen.
/stəˈdʒəʊneɪ//stəˈdʒəʊni/ Opera and Ballet.
(See quot. 1978.) Frequently attributive. Also in combinations, as stagione lirica n. [lit. ‘lyrical season’] the opera season of an Italian theatre.
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stagione lirica1963
1946 E. Blom Everyman's Dict. Music Stagione,..the term is used esp. for an opera season.
1963 Times 19 Feb. 15/3 Como's Teatro Sociale..has opened its stagione lirica for 1963 with a work by Verdi.
1963 Times 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.
1970 Daily Tel. 12 Oct. 11/5 He..examined the problems of opera in English and the ‘stagione’ versus repertory systems.
1978 Ld. 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.
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