Opera Observed - Views of a Florentine Impresario in the Early Eighteenth Century - William C. Holmes - Paperback Bog - The University of Chicago
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
Description
Provides a look behind the scenes into the world of early 18th-century Italian opera. Based on a store of recovered documents, mainly the personal papers of Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi, this social history illustrates the complexities of staging opera in the 1720s and '30s.
