Giambattista Velluti in London (1825-1829): literary constructions of the last operatic castrato

This work is concerned primarily with the five seasons the castrato soprano, Giovanni Battista Velluti spent in London between 1825 and 1829. This time-place is unique in operatic history insofar as it sees the meeting of the new, exhaustively detailed, descriptive musical-critical journalism that...

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Main Author: Crowe, Robert William
Language:en_US
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2144/24098