Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: Volume 2: The Pantheon Opera and Its Aftermath 1789-1795

by Robert D. Hume and Judith Milhous

Following on from the volume on The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791 (published in 1995), this interdisciplinary study of opera and ballet now turns to London's Pantheon Opera during the period 1789-95. The Pantheon Opera, founded in 1790, aimed to give London a kind of court opera that
would feature opera seria and ballet d'action. It tried to hire Mozart to compete with Haydn, but its high aspirations led only to a quick bankruptcy. A recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198167164
• ISBN13: 9780198167167
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 928 Pages
• Weight: 3.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.3" x 6.3" x 9.0"