Author: Pietro MetastasioPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
La Clemenza di Tito; or, The Clemency of Titus. A serious opera, in two acts, curtailed from Metastasio; as represented at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, etc. Ital. & Eng
Author: Pietro MetastasioAnnals of Opera, 1597-1940
Author: Microcosm of London
Author: Rudolph AckermannPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Handel, Tercentenary Collection
Author: Stanley SadiePublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9780835718332
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
English Theatre Music in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Roger FiskePublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
On the first edition: "Written with style and wit; it is consistently entertaining, as such monumental surveys rarely manage to be."--Musical Quarterly. "First class."--Times Literary Supplement. From pantomime to opera, this revised edition discusses all the dramatic genres of the 18th-century English theater.
Italian Opera in London, 1760-1800
Author: Frederick Curtis PettyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music
Author: Jane F. FulcherPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199711984
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
As the field of Cultural History grows in prominence in the academic world, an understanding of the history of culture has become vital to scholars across disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music cultivates a return to the fundamental premises of cultural history in the cutting-edge work of musicologists concerned with cultural history and historians who deal with music. In this volume, noted academics from both of these disciplines illustrate the continuing endeavor of cultural history to grasp the realms of human experience, understanding, and communication as they are manifest or expressed symbolically through various layers of culture and in many forms of art. The Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music fosters and reflects a sustained dialogue about their shared goals and techniques, rejuvenating their work with new insights into the field itself.
Opera in Dublin, 1705-1797
Author: T. J. WalshPublisher:
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Category : Dublin (Ireland)
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Handel
Author: William Charles SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-century London: The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791
Author: Curtis Alexander PricePublisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
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 into escalating 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 as Sacchini, 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, and managerial infighting.