Sebastiano Ricci impresario d’opera a Venezia nel primo Settecento

Sebastiano Ricci was not only one of the greatest Italian and European painters in Eighteenth Century, but also an operatic impresario and a stage designer. With the aid of unpublished archival documents, this book reconstructs and interprets the phases of his theatrical career, which was successfully established in Parma and Rome in 1690 and 1694 and pursued with interruptions in Venice in the first decades of Eighteenth Century. Through this portrait of the artist and impresario, enriched with new biographical elements, the author throws light on the still unacknowledged theatrical and operatic microcosm of the time, enlivened by such well-known figures as the Red Priest Vivaldi, the castrato Cortona, the impresario Orsatto and more unfamiliar names, e.g. the impresario Modotto, the factotum Viola, and the violinists Madonis.