Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London language guides from Sarah Bernhardt to Judi

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Italian Opera in Late Eighteenth-Century London language guides from Sarah Bernhardt to JudiThis interdisciplinary study attempts to make sense of what has long been regarded as a chaotic period in the history of opera in London. In 1778 R. B. Sheridan acquired the King's Theatre and its resident opera company in what we would now call a leveraged buy out, plunging the opera into escalating debts that were to haunt it into the 1840s. The 1780s and early 1790s were a stormy but exciting era: the company hired some of the foremost singers and