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Alegría was a Cirque du Soleil touring production, created in 1994 by director Franco Dragone and director of creation Gilles Ste-Croix.
It was one of Cirque du Soleil's most popular touring shows. Since it premiered in April 1994, it has been performed over 5,000 times and seen by over 14 million spectators in more than 250 cities around the world. Alegría originated as a touring big top show. However, beginning with its 2009-2011 North American tour, the show was converted to an arena format, enabling it to visit cities that were previously inaccessible to the big top tour. Furthermore, Alegría took a short respite and was converted to a resident show at MGM's Beau Rivage casino from May 1999 to October 2000 before it continued touring again. On 29 December 2013, Alegría performed its final show at the Lotto Arena in Antwerp, Belgium.
Alegría takes its name from the Spanish word for "joy." Cirque du Soleil's literature describes the show as "an operatic introspection of the struggle for power and the invigorating energy of youth." Dominique Lemieux's costumes evince a baroque aesthetic of decadence and ornamentation, while René Dupéré's musical score features a unique blend of French, Spanish, African, and Mediterranean influences. The stage and props are characterized by gothic arches and harsh angular designs.
Alegria or Alegría or Allegria may refer to:
Alegría is the thirtieth album released by Christian singer Marcos Witt. The album was recorded live from Santiago, Chile. This album was winner of the Latin Grammy and Billboard Music Award in the category of Best Christian album. Track number 10 was sung by his daughter, Elena Witt.
Alegría is an album by saxophonist Wayne Shorter released on Verve Records in 2003. It is the second album to feature the 'Footprints Quartet' of Shorter, Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade.
The piece "Orbits" is a complete and quasi-orchestral re-imagining of the song of the same name, originally recorded by the Second Miles Davis Quintet and released on the album Miles Smiles in 1967. "Capricorn 2" revisits another Shorter composition first recorded by Davis in 1967 (though not released until 1976 on the primarily Shorter-composed Water Babies), while "Angola" dates from Shorter's own 1965 album, The Soothsayer.
"Alegría" is a pop song by Cirque du Soleil (from their arena show Alegría), which was recorded in 1994.
The song is a multi-lingual adaptation (in English, Italian and Spanish) of another Cirque du Soleil song titled "Un pazzo gridar", written by René Dupéré and Franco Dragone and featuring Italian-only lyrics. It is unknown who wrote the English lyrics for part of this song. "Un pazzo gridar" is also a song from the show Alegría.
In 1999, Cirque du Soleil recorded a new version of the song for their film "Alegría, the Film". This new version was also included in the soundtrack of the movie.
In 2006, Cirque du Soleil recorded a new multi-lingual adaptation (in English, Portuguese and Spanish) titled "La nova alegría" for their arena show Delirium. This new adaptation was written by René Dupéré, Robert Dillon, Franco Dragone, Paolo Ramos and Manuel Tadros.
Alegría is a Spanish surname native of the Basque Country, Spain. While some authors place the origin of this lineage in Navarre and Vitoria , most writers take as true that its origin comes from the natives of Alegría de Oria, district of Tolosa, in the province of Guipuzkoa .
Branches from the very old houses of the Basque Country and Navarre went to other places in Spain, as some of their knights went to Andalusia to serve the Catholic Monarchs in the conquest of Granada. Others went to Murcia and settled in the town of Totana. The surname then spread to Latin America mostly coming from Navarra.
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Alegría (born 1992), Spanish footballer
- María Alegria Continente (born 1977), Spanish politician
- Ciro Alegría (1909–1967), Peruvian journalist, novelist and politician
- Michael López-Alegría, Spanish-American astronaut
- Manuel Díez-Alegría (1905-1987), Spanish military
- Josu Anuzita Alegría (1964-), Spanish footballer
- Claribel Alegría (born 1924), Nicaraguan writer
- José María Díez-Alegría (1911-), Spanish priest
- Miguel José de Azanza Alegría (1745-1826), Duke of Santa Fe and Viceroy of New Spain
- Fernando Alegría (1918–2005), Chilean author, diplomat, and academic
- Eduardo Baeza Alegría (1901 - 1981), Spanish doctor and politician;
- Isidro Alegría (1852-1913), Spanish musician
- Miguel Ángel Alegría (1933-), Spanish pelotari
- Raymundo Polanco-Alegría, Dominican Air Force military and businessman
- Jannet Alegría (born 1987), Mexican taekwondo practitioner
- Luis Alegría (born 1980), Chilean footballer
- Mario Alegría, Peruvian politician
- Pedro Alegría, Dominican Republic politician
- Rosa Luz Alegría (born 1949), Mexican physicist
- Sigrid Alegría (born 1974), Chilean actress
Usage examples of "alegria".
Tatziu passou da seriedade para a alegria, mas levemente, de modo muito lento.
E assim era, naquele momento, a alegria e o prazer que me produziam os pequenos e loiros fios de cabelo da nuca de Liv.
Uma alegria que desejava me desse um brilho especial, fazendo-me parecer a Tatziu bem mais jovem e, ao mesmo tempo, um pouco louca.
E permaneceu calada o tempo todo, tentando exprimir assim seu desagrado pelo que o homem contava, e respeito pela alegria do marido.
Hacienda de Alegria, the sprawling, coast-hugging ranch owned by Joe and Meredith Colton.
I am very grateful to Rene Alegria, my editor at Rayo, so aptly named, for his unbridled enthusiasm and joie de vivre, which made writing this novel so much fun.
Cerberus Systems were gathered on Alegria IV, all but one of them present in person.