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When the theatre became commercial, in it played more than drama plays on theme of everyday life. In XVIII century yet there was no accurate division into theatre drama and opera. The serf actor had to act in many qualities, very often to fulfil the various duties not connected with theatre.

As well as buffoons, the majority of actors at landowner theatres said the prosaic or poetic text, were simultaneously pljasunami, musicians, singers and even sometimes authors executed drama and pieces of music. The creative activity serf actors often began with maloosmyslennogo readings of monologue, executions of arias and duets, dancings and dances; in due course many of them seized high level of a performing art, skill of an embodiment of artistic images as in drama, and operno-ballet genres.

In many landowner manors there were schools of serf actors; it was possible to separate musicians to get education abroad.

Growth of cities has led to distribution amateur and popular ' free ' theatres. In art of this time classicism dominated. These style and a direction addressed to an antique heritage as to ideal norm and the sample. Ideologists of ruling classes imparted to actors aesthetic principles of noble family. They demanded nobleness of manners, beautiful ' sculptural poses ', the approximated gestures, majestic gait, masterful possession of receptions of the recitation, melodious, measured reading of verses, metal sounds of a voice at expression of passion, ability to subordinate the game to an art and decorative problem of performance. The actor should not prove as the independent artist. In classicism performances as it is thin the expert on history of Russian theatre Would notice. V.Alpers, ' actors resembled moving scenery, on the painted shades '.