Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth Century London: Volume 1: The King - s Theatre, Haymarket, 1778 179

Zusatztext remarkable book ... The detail is ample but never otiose ... outstanding study. Klappentext This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R.B. Sheridan acquired the King's Theatre and its resident opera company in what we would now call a leveraged buy-out, plunging the opera intoescalating debts that were to haunt it into the 1840s. The 1780s and early 1790s were a stormy but exciting era: the company hired some of the foremost singers and dancers in Europe; ballet d'action came to London, with Noverre himself as ballet master; the company employed such composers asSacchini, Anfossi, Cherubini and ultimately Haydn; it went bankrupt and carried on through years of wrangling in chancery; the King's Theatre burned down in 1789 and was rebuilt and re-opened in defiance of the Lord Chamberlain's refusal to license the new building. Drawing on libretti and scores, ballet scenarios, pamphlets, scattered manuscripts, legal records, architectural drawings, newspapers, and other sources, the authors reconstruct the history of the company and its shifting artistic policies, analyzing opera and ballet repertory, performers, production circumstances, finances, andmanagerial infighting. Zusammenfassung This interdisciplinary study of opera and ballet at the King's Theatre in London attempts to make artistic and financial sense of a distinguished company that went spectacularly bankrupt, leaving debts that were to haunt opera in London for more than 70 years.

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• Autori: Robert D Hume, Robert D. Hume, Hume Robert D., Judith Milhous, Milhous Judith, Curtis Price, Curtis (King Edward Professor of Music Price, Curtis Alexander Milhous Price, Price Curtis
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.02.1995
• EAN: 9780198161660
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816166-0
• Pagine: 736
• Serie: Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Musica > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; England, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera, Opera, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800