World Premieres at the Teatro de São Carlos During its First 50 years (1793-1843)

Authors

  • David Cranmer

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.104

Abstract

The apparently simple notion of ‘world premiere’, as applied to opera in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, should not in fact be seen as something absolute but relative. The practice of adding and substituting material meant that almost every production of an opera at this period contained music that would receive its premiere.

Author Biography

David Cranmer

DAVID CRANMER graduated in music at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge in 1976, gaining a master’s degree the following year from King’s College, London. He currently teaches at the Universidade Nova and Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, while continuing to be actively involved in musicological research. In 1997 he was awarded a PhD by the University of London for his thesis ‘Opera in Portugal 1793-1828: a study in repertoire and its spread’. He is co-author, with Manuel Carlos de Brito, of Crónicas da Vida Musical Portuguesa na Primeira Metade do Século XIX (Imprensa Nacional, Lisboa, 1990), and, with Clement Laroy, of Musical Openings (Longman, Harlow, 1992). He was Artistic Director of the Mafra International Music Festival (1997­2001) and is organist of St. George's Anglican Church, Lisbon.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

Cranmer, D. (2014). World Premieres at the Teatro de São Carlos During its First 50 years (1793-1843). Portuguese Journal of Musicology, 11, 75–80. https://doi.org/10.57885/rpmns.104

Issue

Vol. 11 (2001)

Section

Articles (peer-reviewed)