1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910449713903321

Autore

Woodfield Ian

Titolo

Opera and drama in eighteenth-century London : the King's Theatre, Garrick and the business of performance / / Ian Woodfield [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

1-107-12237-6

1-280-43308-6

0-511-17558-2

0-511-01598-4

0-511-15603-0

0-511-32903-2

0-511-48175-6

0-511-04739-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 339 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge studies in opera

Disciplina

792.5/09421

Soggetti

Theater management - England - London - 18th century

Opera - England - London - 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-330) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. The Hobart management -- 2. The new managers take control -- 3. Sacchini and the revival of opera seria -- 4. Recruitment procedures and artistic policy -- 5. The King's Theatre in crisis -- 6. The recruitment of Lovattini -- 7. The English community in Rome -- 8. Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon -- 9. Caterina Gabrielli -- 10. Rauzzini's last season -- 11. The King's Theatre flourishes -- 12. The Queen of Quavers satire -- 13. Financial management -- 14. Opera salaries -- 15. The sale of 1778 -- App. 1a. The accounts of Richard Yates and James Brooke at Henry Hoare & Co. (1773-1777) -- App. 1b. The customers account ledgers of Sheridan and Harris (1778-1779) -- App. 1c. Selected entries from the account of Jonathan Garton at Drummonds Bank (1778-1779) -- App. 1d. The account of Gasparo Pacchierotti at Coutts & Co. (1779-1784) -- App. 1e. A page of opera payments and receipts in the Salt MSS (1780) -- App. 2a. Petition to the



Lord Chamberlain (c. 1770) -- App. 2b. Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c. 1775) -- App. 2c. Draft petition to the Lord Chamberlain from Sheridan and Harris (1777) -- App. 3a. Journal Etranger, No. 1 (June 1777) -- App. 3b. Opera reviews from Journal Etranger (1777-1778).

Sommario/riassunto

In this study, Ian Woodfield explores the cultural and commercial life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London. It was a period when theatre and opera worlds mixed, venues were shared, and agents and managers collaborated and competed. Through primary sources, many analysed for the first time, Woodfield examines such issues as finances, recruitment policy, the handling of singers and composers, links with Paris and Italy, and the role of women in opera management. These key topics are also placed within the context of a personal dispute between two of the most important managers of the day, the woman writer Frances Brooke and the actor David Garrick, which influenced the running of the major venues, the King's Theatre, Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Woodfield has also uncovered new information concerning the influential role of the eighteenth-century music historian and critic Charles Burney, as artistic advisor to the King's Theatre.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453318703321

Autore

Reed Christopher <1961->

Titolo

Art and homosexuality : a history of ideas / / Christopher Reed

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2011

ISBN

0-19-983044-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Disciplina

700.86/64

Soggetti

Homosexuality and the arts

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Varieties of "homosexuality," varieties of "art" -- Before modernism -- Inventing the modern: art and sexual identity in the late nineteenth century -- Secrets and subcultures, 1900-1940 -- The short triumph of the modern, 1940-65 -- The avant-garde and activism, 1965-82 -- The AIDS decade, 1982-92 -- Queer and beyond.

Sommario/riassunto

This bold, globe-spanning survey is the first book to thoroughly explore the radical, long-standing interdependence between art and homosexuality. It draws examples from the full range of the Western tradition, including classical, Renaissance, and contemporary art, with special focus on the modern era. It was in the modern period, when arguments about homosexuality and the avant-garde were especially public, that our current conception of the artist and the homosexual began to take shape, and almost as quickly to overlap. Not a chronology of gay or lesbian artists, the book is a fascinating a