Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London Vol. 1 : Volume I: the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791
Language: English
Published by Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995
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- Title
- Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London Vol. 1 : Volume I: the King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791
- Author
- Milhous, Judith, Hume, Robert D., Price, Curtis
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication year
- 1995
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0198161662
- ISBN 13
- 9780198161660
- Edition
- 1st Edition.
- Item weight
- 2.961 pounds
- Dimensions
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Seven-hundred pages allow a rich, thorough treatment of theater, personnel and music that is unlikely ever to be superseded, so the responsibility of the authors is to be as fair as they are industrious. As far as I can see, they have suceeded in being both while remaining user-friendly in their writing style - direct, readable, warm and alive to the humourous and less reputable parts of the story...The sure handling of such written sources as Susan Burney's previously unused letter-journal allows me to assume that the musical examples have been as fairly chosed as they are neatly laid out. (Albion)
...lavishly-documented and richly entertaining book...an admirably clear and sensible narrative, often enlivened by flashes of humour...this is an outstanding contribution to the history of opera in England. (The Musical Times)
This authorative book...will be essential to a limited readership in the fields of English music and theatre. (Choice)
Price, Milhous and Hume evoke this lost operatic world with nice touches of detail...their portrait of a decade is a valuable one...their careful chronicling and lively commentary throw up a lot of evidence which has a cummulative effect. (Time Literary Supplement)
This is the first volume of a study that sets out to explore what amounts to virgin territory ... it is a fascinating story, elegantly told. One looks forward to its continuation in Vol. II. (Julian Budden, Opera)
massive work of scrupulous scholarship ... a most impressive achievement, which has probably said the last word on London opera in this period (Winton Dean, Music and Letters, Vol. 77, No. 2, May '96)
remarkable book ... The detail is ample but never otiose ... outstanding study. (John Rosselli, British Journal for Eighteenth-century Studies, Vol. 19, Pt 2)
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