Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice (AMS Studies in Music) - Hardcover

Glixon, Jonathan; Glixon, Beth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195154169 ISBN 13: 9780195154160

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Glixon Beth L Glixon Jonathan E

Über diesen Titel

Críticas:

the many insights afforded to specialists are well balanced by a comprehensive and accessible narrative that can act as an introduction to the business of opera in early modern Europe. (Vassilis Vavoulis, Music and Letters)

This new study enriches our knowledge about this important chapter in opera history...Through a meticulous study of sources in Venetian archives and elsewhere...the authors were able to amend existing reference as well as add an impressive number of new details to our knowledge about the commercial side of opera of that period...invaluable and unique source. (Clemens Risi, Theatre Research International)

conducted with the Glixons' customary exemplary clarity, both in organisation and prose, and it functions as well as a reference book as a continuous read ... this book should be required reading for students of opera in any period, and will remain the definitive study for the foreseeable future. (Patricia Howard, Musical Times)

Reseña del editor:

Marco Faustini was among the most active and successful professionals in seventeenth-century Venetian opera. As an impresario, he was responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at the season's end. Through examination of Faustini's documents - including personal papers, account books, and correspondence - Beth and Jonathan Glixon provide a comprehensive view of opera production in mid-seventeenth century Venice. For the first time, an emphasis is placed on the "physical production," the scenery, costumes, and stage machinery that tied these opera productions to the social and economic life of the city.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0195154169
• ISBN 13: 9780195154160
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 424