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Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London: The King's Theatre, Garrick and the Business of Performance »

Authors: Ian Woodfield, Paul Robinson (Contribution by), Tim Carter (Contribution by), Ellen Rosand (Contribution by), Arthur Groos
ISBN-13: 9780521800129, ISBN-10: 0521800129
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Ian Woodfield is Professor of Historical Musicology at The Queen's University of Belfast.

Explores the cultural life of Italian opera in late eighteenth-century London.

	List of tables
	List of musical examples
	Acknowledgements
	A note on conventions
	Introduction	1
1	The Hobart management	19
2	The new managers take control	29
3	Sacchini and the revival of opera seria	40
4	Recruitment procedures and artistic policy	52
5	The King's Theatre in crisis	60
6	The recruitment of Lovattini	77
7	The English community in Rome	93
8	Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon	105
9	Caterina Gabrielli	121
10	Rauzzini's last season	131
11	The King's Theatre flourishes	153
12	The Queen of Quavers satire	166
13	Financial management	182
14	Opera salaries	198
15	The sale of 1778	215
App. 1a	The accounts of Richard Yates and James Brooke at Henry Hoare & Co. (1773-1777)	234
App. 1b	The customers account ledgers of Sheridan and Harris (1778-1779)	251
App. 1c	Selected entries from the account of Jonathan Garton at Drummonds Bank (1778-1779)	257
App. 1d	The account of Gasparo Pacchierotti at Coutts & Co. (1779-1784)	258
App. 1e	A page of opera payments and receipts in the Salt MSS (1780)	263
App. 2a	Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c. 1770)	265
App. 2b	Petition to the Lord Chamberlain (c. 1775)	269
App. 2c	Draft petition to the Lord Chamberlain from Sheridan and Harris (1777)	272
App. 3a	Journal Etranger, No. 1 (June 1777)	276
App. 3b	Opera reviews from Journal Etranger (1777-1778)	283
	Notes	295
	Bibliography	323
	Index	331