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Teatro Variedades, Lisbon
The ''Teatro Variedades'' was a theatre in Lisbon, capital of Portugal, that offered variety or revue shows of the type known in Portugal as ''Teatro de Revista''. Opened in 1926, it has not been used since 1992, but as of 2020 there were active plans to construct a new theatre on the site, incorporating elements of the existing building. The ''Teatro Variedades'' is located in the Parque Mayer in Lisbon, close to the Avenida da Liberdade. It was part of a complex of theatres at the park that included the '' Teatro Maria Vitória'', which was the first to be constructed. Its construction was first considered in 1922 by the entrepreneur , and building began two years later, under the direction of the architect Urbano de Castro. The theatre was inaugurated on 8 July 1926, with a variety show called ''Pó de Arroz'' (Rice Powder), with a cast that included Vasco Santana, as the main attraction and Augusto Costa as the compère. There were two shows: one at 21.00 and the other at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisbon
Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits with a population of around 2.7 million people, being the List of urban areas of the European Union, 11th-most populous urban area in the European Union.Demographia: World Urban Areas - demographia.com, 06.2021 About 3 million people live in the Lisbon metropolitan area, making it the third largest metropolitan area in the Iberian Peninsula, after Madrid and Barcelona. It represents approximately 27% of the country's population. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel De Oliveira Gomes Da Costa
Manuel de Oliveira Gomes da Costa , commonly known as Manuel Gomes da Costa () or just Gomes da Costa (14 January 1863 – 17 December 1929), was a Portuguese army officer and politician, the tenth president of Portugal and the second of the National Dictatorship. Gomes da Costa had a distinguished military career in the country's colonies, from 1893 to 1915, in India, Mozambique, Angola, and São Tomé, having served under the command of Mouzinho de Albuquerque. After World War I, in which he rose to greater prominence in the command of the 1st Division of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps, he became actively engaged in politics, in staunch opposition to the dominant Democratic Party. In 1926, he was involved in the military and political movement that resulted in the 28 May 1926 coup d'état that inaugurated a new conservative, authoritarian regime. Following the military coup, Gomes da Costa deposed moderate José Mendes Cabeçadas, who had received executive and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filipe La Féria
Luís Filipe Valente Lá Féria Orta, known professionally as Filipe La Féria (born May 17, 1945 in Vila Nova de São Bento), is a Portuguese director, producer, and screenwriter for television and theatre. Career He began his theatrical activity in 1963 as an actor at the National Theater, and with Amélia Rey Colaço belonged to theatre companies such as Teatro Estúdio de Lisboa, Teatro Experimental de Cascais, Casa da Comédia and Teatro da Cornucópia. He was assistant to Victor Garcia in '' As Criadas'', by Jean Genet, in the Teatro Experimental de Cascais. La Féria studied in London, winning a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian). He was director for 16 years at the Teatro da Casa da Comédia where he had a high degree of responsibility for most of its operations. There he produced a play from René Kalisky about Pier Paolo Pasolini called ''A paixão segundo Pier Paolo Pasolini'' as well as ''A Marquesa de Sade'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rádio E Televisão De Portugal
Rádio e Televisão de Portugal (RTP) is the public service broadcasting organisation of Portugal. It operates four national television channels and three national radio stations, as well as several satellite and cable offerings. The current company dates from 2007, with the merger of two previously separate companies Radiodifusão Portuguesa (RDP; the radio broadcaster) and Radiotelevisão Portuguesa (television broadcaster), although they had been grouped under a single holding company and common branding since 2004. RTP is funded by the ''taxa de contribuição audiovisual'' (broadcasting contribution tax), which is incorporated in electricity bills, and television advertising revenues. History Radio The Emissora Nacional de Radiodifusão - usually referred to by its abbreviated designation Emissora Nacional (EN) - was established on 4 August 1935 as the public national radio broadcaster, inheriting the previous broadcasting operations of the Portuguese postal service (CT ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amália Rodrigues
Amália da Piedade Rebordão Rodrigues GCSE, GCIH (23 July 1920 – 6 October 1999), better known as Amália Rodrigues () or popularly as Amália, was a Portuguese '' fadista'' (fado singer) and actress. Known as the 'Rainha do Fado' ("Queen of Fado"), Rodrigues was instrumental in popularising fado worldwide and travelled internationally throughout her career. Amália remains the best-selling Portuguese artist in history. Early years Early life Even though official documents give her date of birth as 23 July, Amália herself maintained that her birthday was actually 1 July 1920. The baptism certificate of Rodrigues is in the Parish Church of Fundão, and the document was published in the Journal of Fundão after the singer's death, following its discovery in an investigation by Salvado J. Travassos. She was born in Pena, a parish of Lisbon, Portugal. Her father was Albertino de Jesus Rodrigues, originally from the Castelo Branco district in Central Portugal, and her mothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raul Solnado
Raul Augusto de Almeida Solnado (19 October 1929 - 8 August 2009) was a popular Portuguese actor and comedian. He was born in Lisbon's Madragoa neighborhood, and first appeared on stage there. In his long career, he developed many comic pieces that have become classics. His humour was, at the time (especially considering Portugal was still under the dictatorial Salazar regime), both unexpected and fresh. It included a lot of nonsense, and stories making fun of daily life. He often played an ingenuous poor man, whose life was neither good or bad. He portrayed characters with conviction and humor. His best material included pieces written by him, such as "Ida ao médico" ("At the doctor"), and others based on Spanish comedian Miguel Gila’s material: (“A guerra de 1908” / “The war of 1908” and “História da minha vida” / “The story of my life”). Example As a first-time patient in hospital, addressing to a nurse (from “At the doctor”): Solnado hosted Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatriz Costa
Beatriz Costa (born Beatriz da Conceição, 14 December 1907 – 15 April 1996) was a Portuguese actress, the best-known actress of the golden age of Portuguese cinema. She was the author of several books. Filmography * ''A Aldeia da Roupa Branca'', de Chianca de Garcia (1939); * '' O Trevo de Quatro Folhas'', de Chianca de Garcia (1936); * ''A Canção de Lisboa'', de Cottinelli Telmo (1933) * ''Minha Noite de Núpcias'', de E. W. Emo (1931) * ''Lisboa'', de J. Leitão de Barros (1930) * '' Fátima Milagrosa'', de Rino Lupo (1928); * ''O Diabo em Lisboa'', de Rino Lupo Rino Lupo (1888–1934) was an Italian-Portuguese film director.Vieira, p. 143. He made films in several countries during the silent era. He was forced to flee from Russia following the Russian Revolution in 1917. Selected filmography * 1915 - ... (1926). Books * ''Sem Papas na Língua'' (1975) * ''Quando os Vascos Eram Santanas… e Não Só'' (1977) * ''Mulheres Sem Fronteiras'' (1981) * ''Nos Corn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palmira Bastos
Palmira Bastos (1875–1967) was one of the best-known Portuguese stage actresses in the first half of the 20th century. Early life Maria da Conceição Martínez (Martins) de Sousa Bastos was born on 30 May 1875, in the municipality of Alenquer in the Lisbon District of Portugal. She was the third daughter of a couple of Spanish actors from a travelling company who were temporarily in Portugal. After being abandoned by her husband, her mother and her three daughters went to Lisbon, where the mother worked as a dressmaker by day and as a chorus girl at night. Career Palmira Bastos's debut as an actress took place on 18 July 1890 at the ''Teatro da Rua dos Condes'', when she received an ovation for her performance. She continued to perform there for several years, in 1893 having her first starring role and making the first of eleven tours to Brazil. In 1894 she moved to the ''Teatro da Trindade'', which was managed by the dramaturge and impresario, António de Sousa Bastos, who ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Alves
Laura Alves (8 September 1921 – 7 May 1986) was a Portuguese actor on stage, film and radio. Early life Laura Alves Magno was born in Lisbon, Portugal on 8 September 1921, the daughter of Mariana Alves and Celestino Magno. She attended the Machado de Castro School (now the site of Lisbon’s Hotel and Tourism School) and the National Conservatory School of Lisbon ''()''. She first performed live at the age of five in a play by a recreational group of which her father was a member. At six she performed with the Lisbon Amateur Dramatics Group (''Grupo Dramático Lisbonense'') and continued to perform at her school. Her professional debut came in 1935, 20 days before her fourteenth birthday, when she played opposite the well-known Portuguese actor Alves da Cunha in “The two girls of Paris” (''As duas garotas de Paris'') at Lisbon’s ''Teatro Politeama''. She then spent two seasons at the D. Maria II National Theatre in Lisbon. From the time she was 14, her father, a shoemaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ditadura Nacional
The ''Ditadura Nacional'' (, National Dictatorship) was the name given to the regime that governed Portugal from 1926, after the re-election of General Óscar Carmona to the post of President, until 1933. The preceding period of military dictatorship that started after the 28 May 1926 coup d'état is known as ' (Military Dictatorship). After adopting a new constitution in 1933, the regime changed its name to '' Estado Novo'' (New State). The ''Ditadura Nacional'', together with the ''Estado Novo'', forms the historical period of the Portuguese Second Republic (1926–1974). Ditadura Militar, 1926–1928 The military coup of 28 May seized power easily. Soon afterward, the dictatorship dissolved parliament, banned all political parties and instituted censorship. This process was plagued by instability as hardline military officers purged liberals and democrats from the institutions of the Republic. During this time no one clear leader emerged, as the dictatorship was led by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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