[audiobook] Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works by John Lavagnino at Arts-Photography

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The Royal Opera House; Covent Garden is home of two of the most famous opera and ballet companies in the world. In this official history; Frances Donaldson discusses Covent Gardens many legendary achievements - Der Rosenkavalier with Lotte Lehmann; the unparalleled partnership of Fonteyn and Nureyev; the recent Otello with Domingo. She follows the attitude of the English to opera and their Opera House; and the crusade for opera to be sung in English. She looks at the internal politics and at the often charismatic personalities who have worked at the Opera House: Thomas Beecham; George Solti; Maria Callas; Tito Gobbi; Ninette de Valois and Frederick Ashton. Underlying the story; despite the many successful seasons; are the ever-present problems of financial support and uncertainty of the future. The history is superbly well-documented from the Royal Opera House archives. Comments from journalists of the time -whose critical reviews sometimes led to singers of international acclaim refusing to return to Covent Garden - lend spice to this fine analysis of administrative and artistic management at the Garden.