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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Covent Garden"”.
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The role of cultural flagships in the perception and experience of urban areas for tourism and culture. Case study: The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden
… and culture, taking the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden as a case study. Covent Garden, as an important part of London’s tourist portfolio is a case study of interest because of its wide array of land use that makes it a popular area for tourism and cultural consumption, with distinctive …
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If There's No "Fat Lady," When Is the Opera Over? An Exploration of Changing Physical Image Standards in Present-Day Opera
… being held to stricter image standards. In 2004, Covent Garden dismissed Voigt from their production of <em>Ariadne auf Naxos</em>, in which Voigt was supposed to reprise her critically acclaimed interpretation of the title role. According to Voigt, Covent Garden's casting director Peter Katona …
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Broadside ballads and bawdy ditties : Music in the plays of Richard Brome.
… The Northern Lass, The City Wit, The Weeding of Covent Garden and The English Moor by the Caroline dramatist, Richard Brome. The use of music in Brome's plays has received little scholarly investigation despite the sudden research interest in the playwright, and, derived from a gap in existing …
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Playing Monopoly: Actor/Manager Robert William Elliston (1774–1831) and the Struggle for a Free Stage in London 1802–32
… established as The Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Covent Garden). These held privileged access to the traditional canon of serious, literary drama, including Shakespeare. The monopoly regime’s power, re-affirmed in The Theatre Licensing Act 1737, prevented all other playhouses, labelled ‘minor’, …
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A Critical Edition Of Benjamin Hoadley's "the Suspicious Husband" (1747)
… his play The Suspicious Husband, first acted at Covent Garden on 12 Feb., 1747, for which David Garrick wrote a Prologue and acted the part of Ranger. The Suspicious Husband was an extremely popular play throughout the eighteenth and ninetheenth centuries. There is, however, no separate modern …
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Reaching through the Iron Curtain: Practicalities in the Anglo-Soviet cultural exchange of music and musicians, 1955-1975
This dissertation is an investigation of the position of British and Soviet music professionals (such as composers, concert agents, performers, and publishers) in the interchange of music and musicians between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1975. This study determines how they …