proscenium — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The stage area between the curtain and the orchestra.

   Gebrauch

   • in a modern theater

   Beispiele

   It looks like a film, a meticulous, detailed, visually balanced wide-screen Wes Anderson one. There’s no proscenium, no stage, no wings, no audience.

2. The stage area immediately in front of the scene building.

   Gebrauch

   • in an ancient theater

3. The row of columns at the front of the scene building, at first directly behind the circular orchestra but later upon a stage.

   Gebrauch

   • in an ancient theater

   Beispiele

   The front of the scene-building and of the parascenia came to be decorated with a row of columns, the proscenium (πρό, "before"+σκηνή).

4. A proscenium arch.

   Beispiele

   Screamers trumpeted from the roof of the supermarket, white storks rattled their bills as their surveyed the town from the proscenium of the filling-station.

Substantiv

1. the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain)

   Synonyme

   apronforestage

   Oberbegriffe

   stage

2. the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater

   Synonyme

   proscenium wall

   Oberbegriffe

   wall