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Genre/Form: | Biographies Biography |
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Named Person: | Domenico Barbaia; Domenico Barbaia; Domenico Barbaja |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Philip Eisenbeiss |
ISBN: | 9781908323255 1908323256 |
OCLC Number: | 825559829 |
Description: | xi, 300 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, portraits ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Machine generated contents note: 1. From Coffee Waiter to Croupier (1777-1806) -- 2. Naples, the only Capital of Italy -- 3. Feeding Naples' Twin Addictions (1806-1813) -- 4. Rossini and Roulette (1813-1816) -- 5. Rising from the Ashes (1816-1819) -- 6. End of Easy Money (1819-1822) -- 7. Conquest of Vienna (1822-1824) -- 8. Juggling Europe's Stages (1824-1828) -- 9. Finding Successors to Rossini and Colbran -- 10. Retreat from Milan and Vienna (1828-1831) -- 11. Counting the Losses (1831-1836) -- 12. Death is in the Air (1836-1841). |
Responsibility: | Philip Eisenbeiss. |
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'a delightful read, and it should appeal to opera lovers as well as anybody who has an interest in 18th-century entrepreneurship.' '...a heck of a good read' -- Charlotte Rea '...a fine piece of work; informative, entertaining, written in a hugely accessible style. I particularly liked the detail [he goes] into of the politics of the Kingdom of Naples and how San Carlo and Barbaja rolled with the punches.' -- Sir David McVicar 'Eisenbeiss seems to have read widely in several languages, and is as likely to devote a paragraph to the political ambitions of the Carbonari, the latest forms of gas lighting or the details of a theatrical contract as to the artistic quality or nature of a particular opera or performer ... [he] deserves credit...' '...a highly readable, even entertaining historical work about music and culture in Italy during the 1800s. Author Eisenbeiss, heart in hand, displays admirable research and analytic skills as he makes sense of an almost-unheard-of opera impresario, Domenico Barbaja.' Read more...


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- Barbaia, Domenico, -- 1778-1841.
- Teatro alla Scala.
- Teatro di San Carlo.
- Impresarios -- Italy -- Biography.
- Opera -- Italy -- 19th century.
- Opera -- Biography.
- Opéra -- Italie -- 19e siècle.
- Impresarios.
- Opera.
- Italy.
- Barbaja, Domenico -- 1778-1841
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