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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Beth Lise Glixon; Jonathan E Glixon |
ISBN: | 0195154169 9780195154160 |
OCLC Number: | 61228604 |
Description: | xxvi, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | The business of opera. Introduction to the business of opera in seventeenth-century Venice : people and finances ; The boxes : a major source of income ; Marco Faustini and his companies ; Case studies : companies and opera production at four Venetian theaters -- The musical production. The libretto ; The composition and the production of the opera score ; Singers ; Dancers, extras, and the orchestra -- The physical production. Scenery and machines ; Costumes -- Consumers and patrons. The audience and the question of patronage. |
Series Title: | AMS studies in music. |
Responsibility: | Beth L. Glixon, Jonathan E. Glixon. |
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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 * 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 * 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 * Read more...


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- Opera -- Production and direction -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century.
- Venetien -- Kunst -- Musik -- Geschichte 1600-1700.
- Opera -- Production and direction.
- Italy -- Venice.
- Impresario.
- Kunst.
- Musik.
- Oper.
- Opernproduktion.
- Venedig.
- Venetien.
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