Opera and drama in eighteenth-century London : the King's Theatre, Garrick and the business of performance / Ian Woodfield.
In this study, Ian Woodfield explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. It was a period when theatre and opera worlds mixed, venues were shared, and agents and managers collaborated and competed. Through primary sources, many analysed for the first...
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| Language: | English |
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in opera.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Hobart management
- The new managers take control
- Sacchini and the revival of opera seria
- Recruitment procedures and artistic policy
- The King's Theatre in crisis
- The recruitment of Lovattini
- The English community in Rome
- Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon
- Caterina Gabrielli
- Rauzzini's last season
- The King's Theatre flourishes
- The Queen of Quavers satire
- Financial management
- Opera salaries
- The sale of 1778
- Appendices. The accounts of Richard Yates and James Brooke at Henry Hoare & Co. The customer account ledgers of Sheridan and Harris (1778-1779). Selected entries from the account of Jonathan Garton at Drummonds Bank (1778-1779). The account of Gasparo Pacchierotti at Coutts & Co. (1779-1784). A page of opera payments and receipts in the Salt MSS (1780). Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c.1770). Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c.1775). Draft petition to the Lord Chamberlain from Sheridan and Harris (1777). Journal Etranger, No. 1 (June 1777). Opera reviews from Journal Etranger (1777-1778).