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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/613505083 Title: Inventing the business of opera : the impresario and his world in seventeenth-century Venice Author: Beth Lise Glixon; Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon; Oxford University Press Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Scholarship Online, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 0195154169 9780195154160 OCLC:613505083

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Inventing the business of opera : the impresario and his world in seventeenth-century Venice

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Inventing the business of opera : the impresario and his world in seventeenth-century Venice

Author:	Beth Lise Glixon; Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon; Oxford University Press.
Publisher:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford Scholarship Online, 2008.
Series:	AMS studies in music.
Edition/Format:	eBook : Document : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Marco Faustini was among the most successful professionals in seventeenth-century Venetian opera. Presenting an examination of Faustini's documents, this book provides a comprehensive view of opera Read more...
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Subjects	Opera -- Production and direction -- Italy -- Venice -- History -- 17th century. Opera -- Production and direction. Italy -- Venice.
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Genre/Form:	Electronic books History
Material Type:	Document, Internet resource
Document Type:	Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors:	Beth Lise Glixon; Jonathan Emmanuel Glixon; Oxford University Press. Find more information about:
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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