Domenico Barbaja

Schillernder Pate des Belcanto

35,00 € [D] 36,00 € [A]

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The extensive biography about the most influential impresarios of european opera

The whole story of an unlikely career

Author: Philip Eisenbeiss
Translator: Dr. Harald Alfred Stadler
Equipment: Flexocover
ISBN: 978-3-947641-01-7

Domenico Barbaja was the most colorful, most powerful impresario of the Belcanto era, as well as Italy’s most successful casino operator. His influence was felt at such opera houses as Naples, Milan, and Vienna, and he was behind the great careers of composers such as Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Pacini, and Mercadante. He discovered the voices that made history in Italian opera. This book tells of an impresario only famed among opera lovers until now, a man who changed the face of opera forever, and transformed it into a grand, international, and profitable business. The first modern biography of the “Napoleon of Impresarios,” Barbaja’s clever, unscrupulous policies included the way he demanded exclusive contracts using flattery and threats, and he went about making discoveries and generating controversies. This man was able to define the opera scene throughout Europe, while also dominating the gambling industry in Italy for thirty long years. Barbaja was proud of his humble background, barely literate, and yet he was in the habit of dealing with kings and ministers. A biography, a cultural history, a journey through time …

The accompanying CD can be purchased at Naxos direkt.

Philip Eisenbeiss has lived in Hong Kong for more than twenty years. After breaking off his opera studies, he turned to banking and has been a headhunter for sixteen years in the financial branch. To this day he adores the opera.

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Domenico Barbaja

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