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This page intentionally left blank OPERA AND DRAMA IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LONDON TheKing’sTheatre,GarrickandtheBusinessof Performance Inthisstudy,IanWoodfieldexplorestheculturalandcommercial lifeof Italianoperainlateeighteenth-centuryLondon.Itwasa periodwhentheatreandoperaworldsmixed,venueswereshared andagentsandmanagerscollaboratedandcompeted.Through primarysources,manyanalysedforthefirsttime,Woodfield examinessuchissuesasfinances,recruitmentpolicy,thehandlingof singersandcomposers,linkswithParisandItaly,andtheroleof womeninoperamanagement.Thesekeytopicsarealsoplaced withinthecontextof apersonaldisputebetweentwoof themost importantmanagersof theday,thewomanwriterFrancesBrooke andtheactorDavidGarrick,whichinfluencedtherunningof the majorvenues,theKing’sTheatre,DruryLaneandCoventGarden. Woodfieldhasalsouncoverednewinformationconcerningthe influentialroleof theeighteenth-centurymusichistorianandcritic CharlesBurney,asartisticadvisertotheKing’sTheatre. IanWoodfieldisProfessorof HistoricalMusicologyatQueen’s UniversityBelfast.HiscurrentresearchinterestsincludeMozart, andhehasrecentlybeenawardedanArtsandHumanitiesResearch Boardgranttostudytheautographscoreof Cosìfantutte.His publishedbooksincludeTheEarlyHistoryof theViol(Cambridge UniversityPress,),EnglishMusiciansintheAgeof Exploration (Pendragon,)andMusicof theRaj:ASocialandEconomicHistory of MusicinLateEighteenth-CenturyAnglo-IndianSociety(Oxford UniversityPress,). CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN OPERA Serieseditor:ArthurGroos VolumesforCambridgeStudiesinOperaexplorethecultural,political andsocialinfluencesof thegenre.Asaculturalartform,operaisnot producedinavacuum.Rather,itisinfluenced,whetherdirectlyorinmore subtleways,byitssocialandpoliticalenvironment.Inturn,operaleaves itsmarkonsocietyandcontributestoshapingtheculturalclimate.Studies tobeincludedintheserieswilllookatthesevariousrelationships includingthepoliticsandeconomicsof opera,theoperaticrepresentation of womenorthesingerswhoportrayedthem,thehistoryof operaas theatre,andtheevolutionof theoperahouse. EditorialBoard TimCarter,RoyalHolloway,Universityof London JohnDeathridge,King’sCollege,Universityof London JamesHepokoski,Universityof Minnesota PaulRobinson,StanfordUniversity EllenRosand,YaleUniversity Alreadypublished OperaBuffainMozart’sVienna EditedbyMaryHunterandJamesWebster JohannStraussandVienna:OperettaandthePoliticsof PopularCulture CamilleCrittenden GermanOpera:FromtheBeginningtoWagner JohnWarrack OperaandDramainEighteenth-CenturyLondon:TheKing’sTheatre, GarrickandtheBusinessof Performance IanWoodfield Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London TheKing’sTheatre,GarrickandtheBusinessof Performance IanWoodfield The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Ian Woodfield 2004 First published in printed format 2001 ISBN 0-511-01598-4 eBook (netLibrary) ISBN 0-521-80012-9 hardback ToThérèse CONTENTS Listof tables ix Listof musicalexamples x Acknowledgements xi Anoteonconventions xiii Introduction TheHobartmanagement Thenewmanagerstakecontrol Sacchiniandtherevivalof operaseria Recruitmentproceduresandartisticpolicy TheKing’sTheatreincrisis Therecruitmentof Lovattini TheEnglishcommunityinRome LucreziaAgujariatthePantheon CaterinaGabrielli Rauzzini’slastseason TheKing’sTheatreflourishes TheQueenof Quaverssatire Financialmanagement Operasalaries Thesaleof Appendices a TheaccountsofRichardYatesandJamesBrookeatHenry Hoare&Co.(–) b Thecustomeraccountledgersof SheridanandHarris (–) c SelectedentriesfromtheaccountofJonathanGartonat DrummondsBank(–) d TheaccountofGasparoPacchierottiatCoutts&Co. (–) vii viii Contents e Apageof operapaymentsandreceiptsintheSaltMSS () a PetitiontotheLordChamberlain(c.) b PetitiontotheLordChamberlain(c.) c DraftpetitiontotheLordChamberlainfromSheridanand Harris() a JournalEtranger,No.(June) b OperareviewsfromJournalEtranger(–) Notes Bibliography Index
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