Marco Faustini and Venetian Opera Production in the 1650s: Recent Archival Discoveries

Autor:	Beth L. Glixon, Jonathan E. Glixon
Rok vydání:	1992
Předmět:	education.field_of_study Opera media_common.quotation_subject Population Cultural center New Ventures Excellence Political science Capital (economics) Economic history Perfect competition Production (economics) education Music media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Musicology. 10:48-73
ISSN:	1533-8347 0277-9269
DOI:	10.1525/jm.1992.10.1.03a00020
Popis:	O pera achieved its first commercial success in seventeenth-century Venice. The city offered an environment conducive to the growth of the emerging genre. It was already a cultural center and tourist attraction, and its large and affluent population was 48 enriched by a considerable number of cosmopolitan transient visitors during the carnival season. More important, Venice was the commercial city par excellence, with many people willing to invest capital in new ventures, and others possessing the legal and financial skills needed to run a complex business in a competitive market. Members of the leading aristocratic families owned many of the theaters.' Others, often of a less exalted class, oversaw the day-today operations; this group included a number of composers and
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