Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice

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Inventing the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Seventeenth-Century Venice

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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.

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conducted with the Glixons' customary exemplary clarity, both in organisation and prose, and it functions as well as a reference book as a continuous read ... this book should be required reading for students of opera in any period, and will remain the definitive study for the foreseeable future

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