Performing Arts Movements in the World

Pre-war Showa period 1926-1945

“Meiji”, “Taisho”, “Showa” are unique to Japan, apart from the Gregorian calendar. The year 1868 (Meiji 01) is the beginning of modernization in Japan, and the new government was born in Tokyo, and it was the year when full-fledged exchanges with foreign countries began. The Emperor Ichi unity is referred to as Taisho Era, Showa Era, and Heisei Era.
  OPERA BALLET/DANCE PLAY
 
1926
1927 Musical “Show Boat” first performed
1928 Brecht and Weill “The Threepenny Opera” first performed
1929 Ballets Russes dissolved
1930
1931 FUJIWARA Yoshie plays for first time the lead role in “La bohème” at l’Opéra Comique, Paris Anna Pavlova deceased
Vic-Wells Ballet（later Royal Ballet） founded by Ninette de Valois		 O'Neill “Mourning Becomes Electra” first performed
1932
1933 Lorca “Blood Wedding”, Giraudoux “Intermezzo” first performed
Brecht exiles
1934 School of American Ballet founded by Balanchine
1935 Gershwin “Porgy and Bess” first performed
1936
1937 NIMURA Yeichi  establishes a studio at the Carnegie Hall in New York
1938 Wilder “Our Town” first performed
Stanislavski deceased
1939
1940   Ballet Theatre（later American Ballet Theatre）, first public performance
1941
1942
1943 Sartre “The Flies” , Anouilh “Antigone” first performed
1944 Tennessee Williams “The Glass Menagerie” first performed
1945 Britten “Peter Grimes” first performed