Inventing the Business of Opera

The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice

Jonathan Glixon, Beth Glixon (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

424 Seiten

2006
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-515416-0 (ISBN)

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Marco Faustini was among the most successful professionals in seventeenth-century Venetian opera. Presenting an examination of Faustini's documents, this book provides a comprehensive view of opera production in mid-seventeenth century Venice. It places an emphasis on the "physical production," the scenery, costumes, and stage machinery.

Marco Faustini was among the most active and successful professionals in seventeenth-century Venetian opera. As an impresario, he was responsible for every facet of production from contracting the cast to balancing the books at the season's end. Through examination of Faustini's documents - including personal papers, account books, and correspondence - Beth and Jonathan Glixon provide a comprehensive view of opera production in mid-seventeenth century Venice. For the first time, an emphasis is placed on the "physical production," the scenery, costumes, and stage machinery that tied these opera productions to the social and economic life of the city.

Beth L. Glixon received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1985 and has been an instructor in musicology at the University of Kentucky since 1995. She has published articles in Music & Letters, Journal of Musicology, Early Music History, Early Music, and Musical Quarterly, and has presented papers at the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society of Seventeenth Century Music, of which she was one of the founding officers. Jonathan Glixon received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1979, and has taught at the University of Washington and, since 1983, at the University of Kentucky, where he is currently Professor of Musicology. He has published his work in such journals as Journal of the American Musicological SocietyR, Journal of Musicology, and Music and Letters, and in English, Italian, and Australian publications. His book, Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Confraternities, 1260-1807, was published by Oxford in 2003.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	5.1.2006
Reihe/Serie	AMS Studies in Music
Zusatzinfo	Tables and halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 243 mm
Gewicht	735 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-19-515416-9 / 0195154169
ISBN-13	978-0-19-515416-0 / 9780195154160
Zustand	Neuware