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Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London:

The King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance
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Cambridge University Press, May 10, 2001 - Performing Arts - 339 pages
This book explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. Through primary sources, many analyzed for the first time, Ian Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, 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 dispute between two of the most important managers of the day, Frances Brooke and David Garrick, and the major venues of the time: the King's Theatre and its rivals Drury Lane and Covent Garden.
  

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Contents

MUSICAL EXAMPLES
x
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
xi
A NOTE ON CONVENTIONS
xiii
Introduction
xv
1 The Hobart management
xxxiii
2 The new managers take control
xliii
3 Sacchini and the revival of opera seria
40
4 Recruitment procedures and artistic policy
52
9 Caterina Gabrielli
121
10 Rauzzinis last season
136
11 The Kings Theatre flourishes
153
12 The Queen of Quavers satire
166
13 Financial management
182
14 Opera salaries
198
15 The sale of 1778
215
APPENDICES
234

5 The Kings Theatre in crisis
60
6 The recruitment of Lovattini
77
7 The English community in Rome
93
8 Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon
105
NOTES
295
BIBLIOGRAPHY
323
INDEX
331
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Ian Woodfield is Professor of Historical Musicology at The Queen's University of Belfast.

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