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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
September 2009
Print publication year:
2001
Online ISBN:
9780511481758
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511481758
Subjects:
Music, Opera, Eighteenth-Century Music
Series:
Cambridge Studies in Opera
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Book description

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 time, Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, the handling of singers and composers, links with Paris and Italy, and the role of women in opera management. These key topics are also placed within the context of a personal dispute between two of the most important managers of the day, the woman writer Frances Brooke and the actor David Garrick, which influenced the running of the major venues, the King's Theatre, Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Woodfield has also uncovered new information concerning the influential role of the eighteenth-century music historian and critic Charles Burney, as artistic advisor to the King's Theatre.

Reviews

‘… well organised, superbly written and scrupulously documented. Woodfield’s riveting study demonstrates the importance of appreciating the varied forces that shaped opera in London during the eighteenth century.’

Source: Eighteenth-Century Music

‘The author is successful in reconstructing what is in total a fascinating picture of the ins and outs of opera management … an important piece of the historical jigsaw of London theatrical life.’

Source: Opera Magazine

‘In his hands the period springs vibrantly to life … Scholarship with a human face - wonderful stuff!’

Source: International Record Review

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