Opera and Drama in Eighteenth-Century London

Contents

• List of tables
• List of musical examples
• Acknowledgements
• A note on conventions
• Introduction
• 1. The Hobart management
• 2. The new managers take control
• 3. Sacchini and the revival of opera seria
• 4. Recruitment procedures and artistic policy
• 5. The King's Theatre in crisis
• 6. The recruitment of Lovattini
• 7. The English community in Rome
• 8. Lucrezia Agujari at the Pantheon
• 9. Caterina Gabrielli
• 10. Rauzzini's last season
• 11. The King's Theatre flourishes
• 12. The Queen of Quavers satire
• 13. Financial management
• 14. Opera salaries
• 15. The sale of 1778
• Appendices
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.