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By Ian Woodfield

during this examine, Ian Woodfield explores the cultural and advertisement lifetime of Italian opera in past due eighteenth-century London. It used to be a interval while theatre and opera worlds combined, venues have been shared, and brokers and executives collaborated and competed. via basic assets, many analysed for the 1st time, Woodfield examines such matters as funds, recruitment coverage, the dealing with of singers and composers, hyperlinks with Paris and Italy, and the position of girls in opera administration. those key themes also are put in the context of a private dispute among of crucial managers of the day, the lady author Frances Brooke and the actor David Garrick, which motivated the working of the foremost venues, the King's Theatre, Drury Lane and Covent backyard. Woodfield has additionally exposed new details in regards to the influential position of the eighteenth-century tune historian and critic Charles Burney, as inventive consultant to the King's Theatre.

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