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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Beth Lise Glixon; Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon; Oxford University Press. |
ISBN: | 0195154169 9780195154160 |
OCLC Number: | 613505083 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | pt. I. The business of opera -- 1. Introduction to the business of opera in seventeenth-century Venice : people and finances -- 2. The boxes : a major source of income -- 3. Marco Faustini and his companies -- 4. Case studies : companies and opera production at four Venetian theaters -- pt. II. The musical production -- 5. The libretto -- 6. The composition and the production of the opera score -- 7. Singers -- 8. Dancers, extras, and the orchestra -- pt. III. The physical production -- 9. Scenery and machines -- 10. Costumes -- pt. IV. Consumers and patrons -- 11. The audience and the question of patronage -- App. 1. A brief chronicle of opera productions in Venice from 1651 to 1668 -- App. 2. A note on the Venetian social class system and Venetian geography -- App. 3. Documents. App. 4. The impresario's year : a calendar of Marco Faustini's impresarial activities for 1651/52 and 1654/55 -- App. 5. Production expenses for three seasons in the 1650s -- App. 6. Venetian opera orchestras of the 1650s and 1660s -- App. 7. Paid attendance for six seasons in the 1650s and 1660s. |
Series Title: | AMS studies in music. |
Responsibility: | Glixon, Jonathan, Glixon, Beth. |
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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...

