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William C. Holmes, Opera Observed: Views of a Florentine Impresario in the Early Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 256 pp., bibliography, illustrations.

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William C. Holmes, Opera Observed: Views of a Florentine Impresario in the Early Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993), 256 pp., bibliography, illustrations.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 August 2008

Ellen T. Harris
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Cambridge Opera Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , July 1995 , pp. 175 - 179
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References

1 L'archivio della famiglia Guicciardini (Florence, 1931).Google Scholar

2 ‘Il teatro la Pergola di Firenze e la stagione d'opera per il carnevale 1726–27: Lettere di Luca Casimiro degli Albizzi a Vivaldi, Porpora, ed altri’, Rivista italiana di musicologia, 15 (1980), 182–8.Google Scholar

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4 Hill, , ‘Vivaldi's Griselda’, Journal of the American Musicological Society, 31 (1978), 53–82CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Strohm, , ‘Vivaldi's Career as an Opera Producer’, in Essays on Handel and Italian Opera (Cambridge, 1985), 122–63Google Scholar, are examples of landmark studies not cited.

5 ‘L'Erismena travestita’, in Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk, ed. Powers, (Princeton, 1968), 259–324Google Scholar, is only one example of Powers’ contributions to the study of libretto transformations.

6 Strohm, , ‘Vivaldi's Career’, 137.Google Scholar

7 Martello, , L'impostore: Dialogo sopra la tragedia antica e moderna (Paris, 1714)Google Scholar; revised as Della tragedia antica e moderna (Rome, 1715; 2nd edn 1735)Google Scholar, and Marcello, , Il teatm alla moda (Venice, c. 1720).Google Scholar See also Freeman, Robert, ‘The Travels of Panenope’, in Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk, 356–85Google Scholar, for one work among many that discusses the use of substitute arias in light of Marcello's and Marcello's writings.