Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London: The King's Theatre, Haymarket 1778-1791

by Curtis Price, Judith Milhous, Robert D. Hume

This interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778, R.B. Sheridan acquired the King's Theatre and its resident opera company in what we would now call a leveraged buy-out, plunging the opera into escalating debts that were to haunt it into the 1840s. The 1780s and early 1790s were a stormy but exciting era: the company hired some of the foremost singers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198161662
• ISBN13: 9780198161660
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 736 Pages
• Weight: 2.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"