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The Impresario's Ten Commandments

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The extraordinary correspondence between the impresario Felice Giardini and his friend Gabriele Leone lies at the centre of this study of Italian opera in London in the eighteenth century. Hired by Giardini in 1763 to engage Italian performers for a season of opera and ballet at The King's Theatre, Leone was sued by the impresario when the performers he had recruited proved to be second rate. His response was to publish the letters and instructions that Giardini had sent to him, which feature the impresario's ten commandments for the novice foreign opera agent. These letters are transcribed and translated in this volume. As the authors reveal, the documents provide a vivid and detailed source of information about the world of eighteenth-century Italian opera, both in London and in Italy.

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ISBN: 9780947854058
Publication date: 28th November 1992
Author: Curtis Price, Judith Milhous
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 94 pages
Series: Royal Musical Association Monographs
Genres: The arts: general topics
Literature: history and criticism
Language teaching and learning
Language: reference and general
Opera
Art music, orchestral and formal music