Das Theater nach der Mode
Benedetto Marcello · Alfred Einstein
In 1720 the Venetian nobleman and composer Benedetto Marcello published anonymously «Il teatro alla moda», a mock handbook of good advice for everyone who makes an opera – librettists, composers, singers and their mothers, impresarios, orchestra and public – and the sharpest satire ever written on the opera of Vivaldi’s Venice. Here in Alfred Einstein’s German translation of 1917, edited by Bernhard Trebuch, with Einstein’s notes and the title vignette of 1738. Reading sample: the dedication and the advice to librettists, composers and singers, with the notes.
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