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ééپٱܰ

or ··پ·ٱܰ

[ rey-pey-ti-tur; French rey-pey-tee-ٲհ ]

noun

plural ééپٱܰs, repetiteurs
  1. a vocal coach of an opera singer or chorus.
  2. a coach of a ballet dancer or corps:

    As ééپٱܰ, she has staged the works of Ailey and Taylor.



ééپٱܰ

/ repetitøz; repetiٲհ /

noun

  1. a member of an opera company who accompanies rehearsals on the piano and coaches the singers
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ééپٱܲ, noun:feminine
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of ééپٱܰ1

First recorded in 1835–40; from French: “tutor, coach,” from Latin ī(ܲ) (past participle of repetere to repeat ) + French -eur -eur
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Example Sentences

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Then she heard a knock on the door: Jaffe, along with Irina Kolpakova, the esteemed principal ééپٱܰ at Ballet Theater, was there to tell her how beautiful her performance had been.

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He conducted chamber orchestras, and Mozart concertos from the keyboard, and in his late teens began working as a repetiteur — the opera rehearsal assistant position that was the main root of old-school conducting careers.

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Surrounded in Argentina by refugees who had no sympathy for the style of the conductors who stayed behind to serve the Third Reich, Gielen, a ééپٱܰ and budding conductor at the Teatro Colón, gravitated toward the textual literalism of his two antifascist idols, Erich Kleiber and Arturo Toscanini.

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Evocative and easily overlooked, “Répétiteur” by Jorge Otero-Pailos, occupying an obscure rehearsal room at City Center, is on view this week only.

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“Répétiteur,” at City Center, in effect does for Merce Cunningham and dance what “The Ethics of Dust” aimed to do at Westminster.

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