books.google.co.uk - William C. Holmes provides a rare look behind the scenes into the world of early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Based on a rich store of newly recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illuminates the complexities of staging opera in the 1720s...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Opera_Observed.html?id=a2hat0OmcukC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareOpera Observed
