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Beatriz Rente
Beatriz Rente (18581907) was a Portuguese theatre actor. Early life Beatriz Emília Rente was born in the parish of Sé in Portalegre in Portugal on 22 January 1858, daughter of Joaquim Manuel Paes Rente and Joaquina Rita Duarte. Her father, who was a tailor and a member of an amateur dramatics group, died when she was only two and a half years old. She had four siblings. By 1861, she was living in a home for underprivileged children, where her maternal aunt worked. Acting career Rente made her first performance in Portalegre when she was 12 years old, in the role of a beggar in a religious drama ''A Rainha Santa Isabel'' (The Saintly Queen Isabel). At the age of 15 she moved to Lisbon with her mother, living with her godmother, the actress Emília Adelaide, who came from the same parish. The director of the ''Teatro da Trindade'', Francisco Palha, gave her a small role in a comedy that premiered on 30 October 1872. In November 1874, she debuted professionally at the D. Maria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portalegre, Portugal
Portalegre () is a municipality in Portugal. The population was 22,368, in an area of . The municipality is located by the Serra de São Mamede in the Portalegre District. Its name comes from the Latin Portus Alacer (meaning "cheerful port"). The municipal holiday is 23 May. According to the 2001 census the city of Portalegre had 15,768 inhabitants in its two parishes (Sé and São Lourenço). These two parishes, plus the eight rural parishes, had a total of 25,608 inhabitants. The current mayor is Adelaide Teixeira, who was elected as an independent. History According to a frequently mentioned legend, described by Friar Amador Arrais in his 1589 work, ''Diálogos'', Portalegre was founded by Lísias in the 12th century BC, following the disappearance of his daughter Maia. She was walking with Tobias when she is coveted by a vagabond, Dolme, who kidnaps and murders Tobias. Lísias is desperate for his daughter's disappearance and goes in search of her, eventually finding her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area and the seventh most populous. Its capital is Brasília, and its most populous city is São Paulo. The federation is composed of the union of the 26 states and the Federal District. It is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas; one of the most multicultural and ethnically diverse nations, due to over a century of mass immigration from around the world; and the most populous Roman Catholic-majority country. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other countries and territories in South America except Ecuador and Chile and covers roughly half of the continent's land area. Its Amazon basin includes a vast tropical forest, ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1858 Births
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19th-century Portuguese Actresses
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Portuguese Stage Actresses
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Cirrhosis
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Teatro Da Rua Dos Condes
The ''Teatro da Rua dos Condes'', or simply ''Condes'', was a theatre in the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. It was opened in 1738 and rebuilt in 1755 after an earthquake. Never considered comfortable, it was demolished and rebuilt in 1888 and eventually converted to a cinema. After a further demolition and reconstruction as a purpose-built cinema, the building now houses a Hard Rock Café. For part of its life the ''Teatro da Rua dos Condes'' was one of Lisbon's major theatres, attracting the city's elite, including the royal family. However, with the construction of newer, more modern theatres it gradually moved from offering operas and legitimate theater to vaudeville and revues with more of a mass appeal. Early days The ''Teatro da Rua dos Condes'' is believed to have been first opened on 4 February 1738 on land owned in Lisbon by the Count of Ericeira. Prior to that the location may have been used as a private theatre, probably outdoors, for the Count. It was situated on the '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barcelona
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Madrid
Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the third-largest in the EU.United Nations Department of Economic and Social AffairWorld Urbanization Prospects (2007 revision), (United Nations, 2008), Table A.12. Data for 2007. The municipality covers geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula. Capital city of both Spain (almost without interruption since 1561) and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid (since 1983), it is also the political, economic and cultural centre of the country. The city is situated on an elevated plain about from the closest seaside location. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The Madrid urban agglomeration has the second-la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porto
Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropolitan area, with an estimated population of just 231,800 people in a municipality with only 41.42 km2. Porto's metropolitan area has around 1.7 million people (2021) in an area of ,Demographia: World Urban Areas March 2010 making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a global city with a Gamma + rating from the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, its mainland west and south border with the North Atlantic Ocean and in the north and east, the Portugal-Spain border, constitutes the longest uninterrupted border-line in the European Union. Its archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. On the mainland, Alentejo region occupies the biggest area but is one of the least densely populated regions of Europe. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population, being also the main spot for tourists alongside Porto, the Algarve and Madeira. One of the oldest countries in Europe, its territory has been continuously settled and fought over since prehistoric tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teatro Do Ginásio
The Teatro do Ginásio (18451952) was a theatre in Lisbon, Portugal that mainly concentrated on performances of comedy shows. Construction The Teatro do Ginásio was constructed on the modern-day Rua Nova da Trindade in the Chiado district of the Portuguese capital of Lisbon. It originally consisted of a simple shed, lacking in amenities, built in the grounds of the former Palace of Geraldes. The shed, owned by João Manuel da Mota, presented circuses and the first performance was given on 12 October 1845. A few months later some limited remodelling was carried out in order to permit the space to offer traditional theatre. It reopened on 16 May 1846. Early years The ''Ginásio'' initially found it difficult to compete with the other three theatres in the Chiado District. Profitability was not helped by the Revolution of Maria da Fonte, a popular uprising in Portugal in 1846. As a result of these difficulties, the Ginásio was re-oriented towards presenting comedies, under the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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