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The Invention of English Opera: part two, the brief flowering of English opera, the rise of Italian opera and the development of ballad opera
[…] of the BBC Proms and this time the audience awarded the prize to Eccles’ opera. King's (previously Queen's) Theatre, Haymarket, watercolour by William Capon (V&A) John Vanburgh (1664-1726) built a new theatre, the Queen's Theatre, in the Haymarket (Her Majesty's Theatre is on on the site) for Betterton's company, and the theatre opened with a grand season which included the opera Gli amori di Ergasto by Giacomo (Johann) Greber (died 1731), a German composer who had arrived in London in 1702. It was the first opera in London fully sung in Italian by Italian singers, and the cast included the Italian soprano Margherita de L'Epine (also Greber's mistress) who would sing for Handel. The opera was a failure and Greber left London shortly afterwards. The failure of the season led to Vanburgh taking over the company from the […]
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