Handel and his singers : the creation of the Royal Academy operas, 1720-1728
1996, 1st edition, reprint. Oxford : Oxford University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #391215
ISBN: 0198163150
Series: The Oxford Monographs on Music. Physical description: xiii, 213 pages : tables, music ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-210) and index. Contents: Cast, Librettist, Composer -- A General Description of the Sources -- Francesco Borosini and the Two First Versions of Tamerlano (1724) -- Margherita Durastanti as Leading Man and Leading Woman -- Senesino and the Heroic-Anti-Heroic Male Role -- The Singer as Specific Character Type -- Francesca Cuzzoni and Faustina Bordoni: The Rival Queens -- Synopsis of Piovene's Tamerlano (1710) -- Comparison of Piovene, Tamerlano (1710) with Haym, Tamerlano (23 July 1724) -- Projected and Actual Casts for the First Season of the Royal Academy of Music, 1720-1721. Subjects: Handel, George Frideric 1685-1759; Operas; Bordoni, Faustina 1693-1783; Borosini, Francesco 1690-?; Cuzzoni, Francesca 1696-1770; Royal Academy of Music (London, England : 1719-1728); Singers England London 18th century; Opera 18th century; Musical composition.
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