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The 19th century was marked by historical events and various prejudices about the art of the actor, and the actors were initially deprived of the society's consideration. That is why the "Literary Society" appeared in 1827, which campaigned for the development of a Romanian theater and a National Theater, an idea that will be continued within the "Philharmonic Society" between 1833 and 1836. From the statute of the Philharmonic Society, some articles provided the transition from the status of amateur actor to professional, by establishing general culture courses and the actor's art for young "students", in accordance with national-specific literary productions and dramatic literature, able to cultivate the taste of the public and developed by personalities like Ion Heliade-Rădulescu, Costache Aristia, Ion Câmpineanu. With the opening of the National Theater in Bucharest, in 1852, cultivating the theatrical taste of the public became a priority for personalities such as Vasile Alecsandri, Matei Millo, Costache Caragiale, Costache Negruzzi, Grigore Manolescu, Mihail Pascaly, Aristizza Romanescu, Constantin Nottara and many others. They campaigned for the recognition of Romanian values, even if the repertoire was often eclectic regarding Romanian and universal dramaturgy. Foreign theater and opera troupes were supported by the aristocracy to the detriment of the Romanian actors who represented too few dramatic productions for an open and receptive audience. In parallel with these productions were played melodramas, checkers, vaudevilles, comedies, couplets - many of them translations of Parisian boulevard plays - on the provincial stages, and in the Bucharest summer gardens, chansonettes, couplets or light scenes, but also repertoire from the Romanian and the universal dramaturgy; in search of new contracts which would ensure their existence, the actors had to face less favorable conditions, thus contributing to the development of the Romanian theater in all Romanian provinces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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