Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London The King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of musical examples
- Acknowledgements
- A note on conventions
- Introduction
- 1 The Hobart management
- 2 The new managers take control
- 3 Sacchini and the revival of opera seria
- 4 Recruitment procedures and artistic policy
- 5 The King's Theatre in crisis
- 6 The recruitment of Lovattini
- 7 The English community in Rome
- 8 Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon
- 9 Caterina Gabrielli
- 10 Rauzzini's last season
- 11 The King's Theatre flourishes
- 12 The Queen of Quavers satire
- 13 Financial management
- 14 Opera salaries
- 15 The sale of 1778
- Appendices
- 1a The accounts of Richard Yates and James Brooke at Henry Hoare & Co. (1773–1777)
- 1b The customer account ledgers of Sheridan and Harris (1778–1779)
- 1c Selected entries from the account of Jonathan Garton at Drummonds Bank (1778–1779)
- 1d The account of Gasparo Pacchierotti at Coutts & Co. (1779–1784)
- 1e A page of opera payments and receipts in the Salt MSS (1780)
- 2a Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c.1770)
- 2b Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c.1775)
- 2c Draft petition to the Lord Chamberlain from Sheridan and Harris (1777)
- 3a Journal Etranger, No. 1 (June 1777)
- 3b Opera reviews from Journal Etranger (1777–1778)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
1c - Selected entries from the account of Jonathan Garton at Drummonds Bank (1778–1779)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- List of musical examples
- Acknowledgements
- A note on conventions
- Introduction
- 1 The Hobart management
- 2 The new managers take control
- 3 Sacchini and the revival of opera seria
- 4 Recruitment procedures and artistic policy
- 5 The King's Theatre in crisis
- 6 The recruitment of Lovattini
- 7 The English community in Rome
- 8 Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon
- 9 Caterina Gabrielli
- 10 Rauzzini's last season
- 11 The King's Theatre flourishes
- 12 The Queen of Quavers satire
- 13 Financial management
- 14 Opera salaries
- 15 The sale of 1778
- Appendices
- 1a The accounts of Richard Yates and James Brooke at Henry Hoare & Co. (1773–1777)
- 1b The customer account ledgers of Sheridan and Harris (1778–1779)
- 1c Selected entries from the account of Jonathan Garton at Drummonds Bank (1778–1779)
- 1d The account of Gasparo Pacchierotti at Coutts & Co. (1779–1784)
- 1e A page of opera payments and receipts in the Salt MSS (1780)
- 2a Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c.1770)
- 2b Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c.1775)
- 2c Draft petition to the Lord Chamberlain from Sheridan and Harris (1777)
- 3a Journal Etranger, No. 1 (June 1777)
- 3b Opera reviews from Journal Etranger (1777–1778)
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century LondonThe King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance, pp. 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001