History of the Opera: From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time. With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe, Volume 2...
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    History of the Opera: From Its Origin in Italy to the Present Time. With Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Composers and Vocalists of Europe, Volume 2...
                                            
                            By Henry Sutherland Edwards
                            
                                12 Mar, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        The Italian opera, as we shall afterwards see, was introduced into France under the auspices of Cardinal Mazarin, who as the Abbé Mazarini, had visited all the principal theatres of Italy by the express command of Richelieu, and had studied their sy
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                                                The Italian opera, as we shall afterwards see, was introduced into France under the auspices of Cardinal Mazarin, who as the Abbé Mazarini, had visited all the principal theatres of Italy by the express command of Richelieu, and had studied their system with a view to the more perfect representation of the cardinal-minister's tragedies. The Italian Opera he introduced on his own account, and it was, on the whole, very inhospitably received. Less