répertoire

A form of repertoire — A list of dramas, operas, pieces, parts, etc., which a company or a person has rehearsed and is prepared to perform or display.

Meanings

nounrépertoire (plural répertoires)

plural répertoires

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of repertoire.

    Miss Fay Davis’s recitation répertoire includes some fifty or sixty excerpts, culled from Shakspere down to the latest of writers.

    1896 January 29, “Miss Fay Davis”, in The Sketch, volume XIII, London: […] Ingram Brothers, page 27, column 1
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    Again I changed my dress, again I sat in the window, and again I laughed very heartily at the funny stories of which my employer had an immense répertoire, and which he told inimitably.

    1892 [June], A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. XII.—The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.”, in Geo[rge] Newnes, editor, The Strand Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume III (January to June), number [18], London: George Newnes, Limited, […], page 621, column 1

    The words appended are often selected on the principle of contrast and comparison, and altogether furnish a répertoire of over two thousand—all more or less deserving of separate and distinctive observation.

    1898, William Williamson, “Preface”, in A Class Book of Dictation Passages, with Words Appended, Selected by William Williamson, […], London: Methuen & Co. […], page v

    Defying the attempts of imitators, it occupies a unique position in the literature of the pianoforte, and its inherent vitality is attested by the fact that for more than fifty years it has been a conspicuous item in the répertoire of nearly every pianist capable of executing it.

    1912, Florence May, “1834: Ernestine von Fricken—Clara in Dresden—Schumann and Ernestine—Carl Banck—Schumann’s ‘Carnaval’—Études Symphoniques’”, in The Girlhood of Clara Schumann (Clara Wieck and Her Time) […], London: Edward Arnold, page 111

    She has frequently said that she finds it easier to sing any two other rôles in her répertoire, and refuses to appear for two days before or after a performance of this Puccini opera.

    1917, Carl Van Vechten, “Geraldine Farrar”, in Interpreters and Interpretations, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, page 44
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