The politics of opera in Handel's Britain /

The Politics of Opera in Handel's Britain examines the involvement of Italian opera in British partisan politics in the first half of the eighteenth century, which saw Sir Robert Walpole's rise to power and George Frideric Handel's greatest period of opera production. McGeary argues t...

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Main Author: McGeary, Thomas, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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