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E-book The Management of Opera (1861-1918) : Theatres of the Eastern Adriatic

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The present research intends to trace the presence of opera and reconstruct the organisa-tional system in the theatres situated along the coastline of present-day Croatia in the period immediately following the constitution of the first Diet of Dalmatia (1861) until the end of the First World War. The period is sufficiently broad to permit us to understand and define the workings of both the impresario system and the opera circuits operating in the area. The study aims, therefore, to provide notes for a history that is at present lacking. In the process it will contextualise the historical documentation discovered, so that it can be correctly assessed and interpreted. With the benefit of the material hitherto collected in the archives, museums and libraries of the area, we can reconstruct – not always, unfortunately, in a complete form – the relationships between impresarios and theatre managements, map the movements of the impresarios and agents, and identify the contacts between the pub-lishers (and their representatives) and the coastal area.In the sixty-year period under consideration, we encounter theatres of different types and sizes along the Adriatic coast. Starting from the north, the first to be taken into con-sideration is the Politeama Ciscutti of Pula (Pola), named after Pietro Ciscutti, a man viewed as a benefactor of the city, who built the new theatre in 1881 after demolishing the old one he himself had erected in 1854.1 On the seating capacity of the Politeama the sources disagree. It is likely to have had around 800 seats when the town had around 30,000 inhabitants, in spite of claims published in the Gazzetta Musicale di Milano that the theatre could hold as many as 2,800,2 or according to other sources, 2,200 or 1,800. Further down the coast we come across the Teatro Adamich of Rijeka (Fiume), with seat-ing for about 1,000 (built when the town had a population of about 10,000)3 and, later, he Teatro Comunale, inaugurated in 1885 and with a seating capacity of 1,240.4 South of Rijeka, Zadar (Zara) founded its Teatro Nuovo in 1864,5 following the demise of the Teatro Nobile; it had a slightly greater seating capacity of around 1,500.6 Further south still, the smaller town of Šibenik (Sebenico), with its 7,000 inhabitants, had a theatre with limited operatic activity, also judging from what was written in the guidebooks of the period: “Teatro Mazzoleni. Open very rarely” (Aperto assai di rado).7 At the time the theatre was the property of the Mazzoleni family and had been founded by the tenor Francesco Mazzoleni,8 a singer who was in direct contact with Giuseppe Verdi and was also an uncle of the famous soprano Ester. It was later run by various distinguished mem-bers of the family, among whom the lawyer Enrico, Paolo (Francesco’s brother),9 and the pharmacist Giovanni (Paolo’s son and Ester’s brother), who would later succeed his father in the management of the theatre.Further south was the more populous city of Split (Spalato), which had 10,787 inhab-itants in 1860,10 and 15,700 in 1899, of which only 2,000 were Italian.11 The first func-tioning theatre was the Teatro Bajamonti, with a seating capacity of around 1,400–1,500, inaugurated on 27 December 1859,12 followed by the Teatro Nuovo, by which time the city had passed from an Italian administration to the Croatian government of Gajo Filomen Bulat. The last theatre in this series is the Teatro Bonda of Dubrovnik (Ragusa), founded just a few years after the Teatro Bajamonti by the nobleman Luca Bonda in a town which, at the time, was not much larger than Šibenik. The theatre, which aimed to “imitate the modern theatres of the principal cities of Italy”,13 was also, in its con-stitution, a teatro sociale like those mentioned previously, with Bonda having quarter ownership and the remaining three-quarters in the hands of those who had bought the boxes.

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Informasi Detail

Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

782.1 SCU t

Penerbit

Germany : BRILL., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

552 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783205216537

Klasifikasi

782.1

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Dramatic Vocal Forms, Operas

Info Detail Spesifik

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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Versi lain/terkait

Lampiran Berkas

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