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- Title: Cockney Mozart: The Hunt Circle, The King's Theatre, And Don Giovanni (Critical Essay)
- Author : Studies in Romanticism
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 254 KB
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I THE WEEK THAT MOZART'S DON GIOVANNI MADE ITS FAMOUS, AND FAMOUSLY belated, debut on the London stage, Leigh Hunt, editor and opera critic of the Examiner, found himself marooned in Buckinghamshire. From there he sent a letter to his friend Vincent Novello, the musician, who had tickets to the opening night. We "envy you the power of seeing Don Giovanni," he wrote wistfully. (1) Hunt was envious for good reason. The April 1817 premiere of Don Giovanni at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket marked "a red letter in the operatic annals" of England, a production that permanently changed the nature of opera and opera-going in London. (2) The triumph of the 1817 Don Giovanni, and Hunt's excitement, nevertheless prompt the question: Why was Mozart's most celebrated opera, which premiered in Vienna and Prague in 1787, not produced in London for a full thirty years? The generation delay in the debut of Don Giovanni, at the most prestigious Italian opera house in Europe after La Scala, opens up the political history of Mozart reception in England I wish to pursue here, specifically the struggle between the Mozartians of" the Hunt circle and the aristocratic, anti-Mozart "cabal" at the King's Theatre.
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