On 13 Jan 2007 at 21:43, John Howell wrote: > It's interesting that the English theaters of > Shakespeare's time deliberately appealed to both > the connoisseurs and the groundlings, and did so > quite successfully, while opera in ANY country > through the 18th century seems not to have done > so.
Well, it's a lot cheaper to mount a play than an opera, so I'd say that the latter's higher expenses are why it had to be subsidized by the nobility, and thus became an ornament of aristocratic glory rather than an entertaiment of the people. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
