‘Play it again, Sam’: the ‘encore’ in 18th-century London opera
An encore in the middle of an act of an opera is (like too much applause and the rustling of sweet wrappers) an anathema to modern audiences, interested in ‘dramatic continuity’. Such an attitude sits uneasily with a parallel interest in ‘authenticity’ which excludes the practice, for repetitions of...
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2016
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