Opera Observed: Views of a Florentine Impresario in the Early Eighteenth Century

by William C. Holmes

Book Overview

William C. Holmes provides a rare look behind the scenes into the world of early eighteenth-century Italian opera. Based on a rich store of newly recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illuminates the complexities of staging opera in the 1720s and '30s: the role of the impresario in planning an operatic season, financial and artistic difficulties, the importance of patronage, the power of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226349713
• ISBN13: 9780226349718
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"