1st Edition
The Impresario's Ten Commandments Continental Recruitment for Italian Opera in London 1763-64
94 Pages
by
Routledge
The extraordinary correspondence between the impresario Felice Giardini and his friend Gabriele Leone lies at the centre of this study of Italian opera in London in the eighteenth century. Hired by Giardini in 1763 to engage Italian performers for a season of opera and ballet at The King's Theatre, Leone was sued by the impresario when the performers he had recruited proved to be second rate. His... Read more
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Biography
Curtis Price, Judith Milhous
