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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.

English literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- anno 1700-1799 --- London --- Theater management --- Opera --- Gestion de théâtre --- Opéra --- King's Theatre (London, England) --- Management --- England --- London (England) --- 18th century --- 78.77.0 --- Management. --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Theater administration --- Theater --- History and criticism --- Production and direction --- Queen's Theatre (London, England : 1705-1714) --- Her Majesty's Theatre (London, England)

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The Italian opera company in Prague managed by Pasquale Bondini and Domenico Guardasoni played a central role in promoting Mozart's operas during the final years of his life. Using a wide range of primary sources which include the superb collections of eighteenth-century opera posters and concert programmes in Leipzig and the Indice de' teatrali spettacoli, an almanac of Italian singers and dancers, this study examines the annual schedules, recruitment networks, casting policies and repertoire selections of this important company. Woodfield shows how Italian-language performances of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte and La clemenza di Tito flourished along the well-known cultural axis linking Prague in Bohemia to Dresden and Leipzig in Saxony. The important part played by concert performances of operatic arias in the early reception of Mozart's works is also discussed and new information is presented about the reception of Josepha Duschek and Mozart in Leipzig.

Television play --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus --- Impresarios. --- Opera --- Comic opera --- Lyric drama --- Opera, Comic --- Operas --- Drama --- Dramatic music --- Singspiel --- Opera producers and directors --- Theatrical producers and directors --- Concert agents --- Production and direction --- History and criticism --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Bondini, Pasquale, --- Guardasoni, Domenico, --- Mozart, Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Performances. --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ, --- Mōtsaruto, --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib, --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus, --- Mozart, W. A. --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo, --- Mot︠s︡art, V. A. --- Mocartas, V. A., --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios, --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus, --- Mozzart, Apollo, --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus, --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus, --- Mozhate, --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей, --- מוצרט, --- מוצרט, וולפגנג אמדאוס, --- 莫札特, --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz, --- Mozart, W.A. --- Mot︠s︡art, Volʹfgang Amadeĭ --- Mot︠s︡art, Iogann-Krizost Volʹfgang Gotlib --- Mozart, Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus --- Mozart, Wolfgango Amadeo --- Mocartas, V. A. --- Motsart, Volphnkank Amedaios --- Mot︠s︡art, Volfang Amadeus --- Mozzart, Apollo --- Mozart, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Amadeus --- Mozart, Johannes Chrisostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus --- Mozhate --- Моцарт, Вольфганг Амадей --- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeusz

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WINNER of the Mozart Society of America 'Marjorie Weston Emerson Award' for 2008 This study proposes a hypothesis to account for some of the opera's long-standing 'problems'. It suggests that Mozart considered the idea that the pairings in Act II should not be crossed: that each of the two disguised officers should seek to seduce his own woman. Although this alternative plot structure was rejected, signs of it may remain in the final score, in the uneasy co-existence of dramatic duplicity and musical sincerity, and in the ending, in which the easy restitution of the original couples seems not to take account of the new passions that have been aroused. Evidence that several of the singers were re-cast is also presented. In addition to these radically new ideas about the conceptual genesis of Cos©Ơ, the book also provides a full account of the work's compositional history, based on early Viennese and Bohemian copies. Four different versions are identified, including a significant revision in which Mozart removed the Act II finale canon. The composer's probable involvement in the 1791 Prague production is also discussed. IAN WOODFIELD is Professor of Historical Musicology, School of Music and Sonic Arts, Queen's University Belfast.

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, --- MUSIC / History & Criticism. --- Act II. --- Compositional History. --- Così fan tutte. --- Disguised Officers. --- Mozart. --- Musicology. --- Passion. --- Prague Production. --- Seduction. --- Viennese.

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