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London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume III: 1783-1792 book cover

1st Edition

London Opera Observed 1711–1844, Volume III 1783-1792

Edited By Michael Burden Copyright 2013
302 Pages
by Routledge

302 Pages
by Routledge
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The thrust of these five volumes is contained in their title, London Opera Observ’d.  It takes its cue from the numerous texts and volumes which — during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries — used the concept of ‘spying’ or ‘observing’ by a narrator, or rambler, as a means of establishing a discourse on aspects of London life. The material in this five-volume reset... Read more

A Lady of Fashion, A Descriptive Plan of the New Opera House ([1783])

The Opera House Disputes I

[Anon.], The Opera Rumpus; or, Ladies in the Wrong Box! (1783)

[Anon.], The Case of the Opera-House Disputes, Fairly Stated (1784)

[Anon.], The Testament, or Will, of Mr. William Taylor (1785)

Giusto Fernandino Tenducci, ‘To the Public’, from Ranieri de Calzabigi, Orpheus and Eurydice, a Musical Drama (1785)

Robert Nares, Remarks on the Favourite Ballet of Cupid and Psyche (1788)

John Brown, Letters upon the Poetry and Music of the Italian Opera (1789)

Anthony A. Le Texier, Ideas on the Opera (17900

The Opera House Disputes II

Robert Bray O’Reilly, An Authentic Narrative of the Principle Circumstances Relating to the Opera-House in the Hay-Market (1791)

William Taylor, A Concise Statement of the Transactions and Circumstances Respecting the King’s Theatre (1791)

Henry Tresham, Description of the Allegory, Painted for the Curtain of the King’s Theatre Pantheon (1791)

The ‘Life’ of Mrs Billington

[Anon.], Memoirs of Mrs Billington (1792)

[Anon.], An Answer to the Memoirs of Mrs. Billington (1792)

Four Singers’ Biographies, Joseph Haslewood, The Secret History of the Green Room (1793)

Biography

Edited by Michael Burden

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