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The Blue Bird ( French: L'Oiseau bleu) is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski 's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first ...
- Maurice Maeterlinck
- 1908
A family, sitting up under the lamp, is seen rather distinctly. The father is seated by the fireside. The mother, one elbow on the table, is staring into space. Two young girls, clad in white, embroider, dream, and smile in the quiet of the room. A child lies asleep with his head under the mother's left arm. Whenever one of them rises, walks ...
Signature. Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck[ 1][ a] (29 August 1862 – 6 May 1949), also known as Count (or Comte) Maeterlinck from 1932, [ 6] was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911 "in appreciation of his many-sided literary activities ...
In 1918, Famous Players-Lasky Corp. made another version of the Maeterlinck play, directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Tula Belle and Robin Macdougall (see AFI Catalog of Feature Films, 1911-20; F1.0394), and in 1976, George Cukor directed Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda and Eva Gardner in a Russian-American version also entitled The Blue Bird.
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The Blue Bird. The Blue Bird is a 1918 American silent fantasy film based upon the 1908 play by Maurice Maeterlinck and directed by Maurice Tourneur in the United States, under the auspices of producer Adolph Zukor. In 2004, this film was deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the United States Library of Congress ...
Pelléas et Mélisande, play in five acts by Maurice Maeterlinck, published in French in 1892 and produced in 1893, that is considered one of the masterpieces of French Symbolist drama. Set in an imaginary land in medieval times, it centres on the tragic love of Pelléas for Mélisande, who is married to Pelléas’s brother.
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A composition based on the one-act play by Maurice Maeterlinck.Deep in a forest a group of blind persons wait for their guide. When they realize he will neve...
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