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Teatro Avenida
''Teatro da Avenida'', better known as ''Teatro Avenida'', was a theatre located at 150 to 156 Avenida da Liberdade in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, which operated from 1888 to 13 December 1967, when it was completely destroyed by fire. Following the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, the city was rebuilt under the instructions of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal. The reconstruction included the development of a park, oriented south-east to north-west, known as the '' Passeio Público''. The park's borders rapidly became a popular location for the elite to build their homes and, over time, it was considered necessary for a road to be built through the park. The Avenida da Liberdade was completed in 1886. The ''Teatro Avenida'' opened on 11 February 1888 and until 1906 was the only entertainment facility on the Avenida da Liberdade. It had a very simple appearance, with little architectural distinction. On the ground floor of the façade were four wooden doors, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Avenida Da Liberdade
Avenida da Liberdade ( Portuguese for ''"Avenue of Liberty"'') is a boulevard in central Lisbon, Portugal. It ranks among the most expensive streets in Europe, with property costing over €9,000 per sqm. Originating in the '' Passeio Público'', an 18th-century park built for the Portuguese nobility, the avenue was constructed between 1879 and 1886. Marking the city's northward expansion during the 19th century, the former park was turned into a major boulevard. The Avenida da Liberdade is also home to numerous embassies and diplomatic missions. The Avenida connects Marquis of Pombal Square in the north to Restauradores Square, marking the entrance to the Lisbon Baixa neighborhood. History The Avenida da Liberdade, as well as the Restauradores Square, have their origins in the ''Passeio Público'', a public park inaugurated in the area in 1764 – a project led by Pombaline architect Reinaldo Manuel. The park was initially surrounded by a high wall, but it was revam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Eunice Muñoz
Eunice Muñoz, Order of St. James of the Sword, OSE, Order of Infante D. Henrique, GCIH (30 July 1928 – 15 April 2022) was a Portuguese actress, considered one of the best Portuguese actresses of all time. Early life and career Eunice Muñoz was born in Amareleja, Portugal. She studied at the Portuguese National Conservatory, nowadays the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema). Muñoz was awarded the title of Honorary degree, honoris causa by the University of Évora in 2009. Death She died in Carnaxide on 15 April 2022, at the age of 93. Selected filmography * ''Camões (1946 film), Camões'' (1946) * ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Harold Pinter
Harold Pinter (; 10 October 1930 – 24 December 2008) was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A List of Nobel laureates in Literature, Nobel Prize winner, Pinter was one of the most influential modern British dramatists with a writing career that spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include ''The Birthday Party (play), The Birthday Party'' (1957), ''The Homecoming'' (1964) and ''Betrayal (play), Betrayal'' (1978), each of which he adapted for the screen. His screenplay adaptations of others' works include ''The Servant (1963 film), The Servant'' (1963), ''The Go-Between (1971 film), The Go-Between'' (1971), ''The French Lieutenant's Woman (film), The French Lieutenant's Woman'' (1981), ''The Trial (1993 film), The Trial'' (1993) and ''Sleuth (2007 film), Sleuth'' (2007). He also directed or acted in radio, stage, television and film productions of his own and others' works. Pinter was born and raised in Metropolitan Borough of Hackney, Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
The Birthday Party (play)
''The Birthday Party'' (1957) is the first full-length play by Harold Pinter, first published in London by Encore Publishing in 1959. It is one of his best-known and most frequently performed plays. In the setting of a rundown seaside boarding house, a little birthday party is turned into a nightmare when two sinister strangers arrive unexpectedly. The play has been classified as a comedy of menace, characterised by Pinteresque elements such as ambiguous identity, confusions of time and place, and dark political symbolism. Pinter began writing ''The Birthday Party'' in the summer of 1957 while touring in ''Doctor in the House''. He later said: "I remember writing the big interrogation scene in a dressing room in Leicester." Characters * Petey, a man in his sixties * Meg, a woman in her sixties * Stanley, a man in his late thirties * Lulu, a girl in her early twenties * Goldberg, a man in his fifties * McCann, a man of thirty Summary ''The Birthday Party'' is about Stanley W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Diário De Lisboa
The ''Diário de Lisboa'' was a daily evening newspaper published in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon between 1921 and 1990. History The newspaper was founded on 7 April 1921 by Joaquim Manso, who ran it until he died in 1956. He was succeeded by Norberto Lopes between 1956 and 1967. It was published for the last time in 1990, when Mário Mesquita was the director. The company was owned by ''Renascença Gráfica'' and was edited in Rua Luz Soriano (Luz Soriano Street) in Lisbon. Since 2009, 500 copies of one annual issue have been printed in order to protect the rights to the ''Diário de Lisboa'' title.* Contributors Published throughout the lifetime of the ''Estado Novo (Portugal), Estado Novo'' dictatorship, when censorship was common, the ''Diário de Lisboa'' took more risks than most other papers and provided an outlet for some views considered controversial by the regime. It stands out, in the context of the Portuguese press at the time, for the independence of its opinio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Amélia Rey Colaço
Amélia Lafourcade Schmidt Rey Colaço de Robles Monteiro (2 March 1898–8 July 1990) was one of the leading Portuguese actors of the first half of the 20th century. She was also an important impresario. Early years Amélia Rey Colaço was born on 2 March 1898 in Lisbon, Portugal, the youngest of four sisters. She came from a privileged, artistic and multinational background. Her father, Alexandre Rey Colaço, born in Tangier in 1854, had a Portuguese mother and a French father. Orphaned at a young age, his training as a pianist started at the Madrid Royal Conservatory and was continued in Paris and Berlin, as a result of the patronage of the Count of Daupiás. As a pianist and composer, he became music teacher to Prince Luís Filipe of Portugal and his brother, the future King Manuel II. Amélia Rey Colaço’s mother, Alice Lafourcade Schmidt, was born in Chile, had a French mother and a German father and taught her daughters several languages. She grew up in Berlin with her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Vasco Santana
Vasco Santana (full name: ''Vasco António Rodrigues Santana''; 28 January 1898 in Lisbon – 13 June 1958) was a Portuguese actor, one of the most renowned of the classical era of Portuguese cinema. He already had a long career in theatre when he played the main character in the first Portuguese sound film, ''A Canção de Lisboa ''A Canção de Lisboa'' (lit. ''The Song of Lisbon'') is a 1933 Portuguese Musical film, musical comedy film, directed by José Cottinelli Telmo, and starring Vasco Santana, Beatriz Costa, António Silva (actor), António Silva, Alfredo Silva, A ...'', in 1933. He starred in about one dozen films. Portuguese male film actors Male actors from Lisbon 1898 births 1958 deaths {{Portugal-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Laura Alves
Laura Alves (8 September 1921 – 7 May 1986) was a Portuguese actress 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 shoemake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
João Villaret
João Henrique Pereira Villaret (born 10 May 1913 in Lisbon; died 21 January 1961) was a Portuguese actor. Filmography *'' O Pai Tirano'', by António Lopes Ribeiro (1941) *''Inês de Castro'', by Leitão de Barros (1945) *'' Camões'', by Leitão de Barros (1946) * '' Three Mirrors'', by Ladislao Vadja (1947) *'' Frei Luís de Sousa'', by António Lopes Ribeiro (1950) *'' A Garça e a Serpente'', by Arthur Duarte (1952) *'' O Primo Basílio'', by António Lopes Ribeiro (1959). Distinctions National orders * Officer of the Order of Saint James of the Sword The Military Order of Saint James of the Sword (), formerly known as the Ancient, Most Noble and Enlightened Military Order of Saint James of the Sword, of the Scientific, Literary and Artistic Merit (), is one of the four former ancient Port ... (2 April 1960) References {{DEFAULTSORT:Villaret, Joao 1913 births 1961 deaths Portuguese male film actors Male actors from Lisbon 20th-century Portuguese male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Beatriz Costa
Beatriz Costa (born Beatriz da Conceição, 14 December 1907 – 15 April 1996) was a Portuguese actress, active durint the golden age of Portuguese cinema. She was the author of several books. Costa debuted as a chorus girl in Lisbon at the age of 16, eventually becoming the highest paid stage actress in Portugal in the 1940s. She died in Lisbon on 15 April 1996. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lisbon
Lisbon ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 567,131, as of 2023, within its administrative limits and 3,028,000 within the Lisbon Metropolitan Area, metropolis, as of 2025. Lisbon is mainland Europe's westernmost capital city (second overall after Reykjavík, Reykjavik), and the only one along the Atlantic coast, the others (Reykjavik and Dublin) being on islands. The city lies in the western portion of the Iberian Peninsula, on the northern shore of the River Tagus. The western portion of its metro area, the Portuguese Riviera, hosts the westernmost point of Continental Europe, culminating at Cabo da Roca. Lisbon is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world and the second-oldest European capital city (after Athens), predating other modern European capitals by centuries. Settled by pre-Celtic tribes and later founded and civilized by the Phoenicians, Julius Caesar made it a municipium ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
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] [Amazon] |
