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The Impresario's Ten Commandments: Continental Recruitment for Italian Opera in London 1763-64

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The extraordinary correspondence between the impresario Felice Giardini and his friend Gabriele Leone lies at the centre of this study of Italian opera in London in the eighteenth century. Hired by Giardini in 1763 to engage Italian performers for a season of opera and ballet at The King's Theatre, Leone was sued by the impresario when the performers he had recruited proved to be second rate. His response was to publish the letters and instructions that Giardini had sent to him, which feature the impresario's ten ...

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The Impresario's Ten Commandments: Continental Recruitment for Italian Opera in London 1763-64 1992, Routledge, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780947854058

Hardcover