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Curiosa - Thorough treatise on the right of every theater audience to remove a hated actor from the stage. Pest, Landerer, 1825. 50 pp. 17.3 x 11 cm. Handsome later cardboard volume covered with floral colored paper with original printed cover. Gugitz I, 7333 - Holzmann-Bohatta VII, 80: Vienna 1796 "Lo Presti". - Via KVK only one record in the Austrian National Library of a copy with imprint "Wien, bey Joseph Camersina und Compagnie 1796" and only 46 pages. - GV 1, 134 (with reference to the Wiener Zeitung 1796, p. 1079) gives "Lo Presti" as the author; this may be Francesco Lopresti, son of the Sicilian-born Baron Rocco di Lopresti (d. 1784), who directed the Vienna Hofburgtheater from 1747-1751. - A thoroughly serious, but also very amusing treatise on booing and expelling bad actors from the stage, with an overview of such incidents from antiquity to current events. A London opera-goer is also mentioned, who sang along enthusiastically but incorrectly to Italian arias in his seat - and was rudely ejected by the director. VAT: *
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Curiosa - Thorough treatise on the right of every theater audience to remove a hated actor from the stage. Pest, Landerer, 1825. 50 pp. 17.3 x 11 cm. Handsome later cardboard volume covered with floral colored paper with original printed cover. Gugitz I, 7333 - Holzmann-Bohatta VII, 80: Vienna 1796 "Lo Presti". - Via KVK only one record in the Austrian National Library of a copy with imprint "Wien, bey Joseph Camersina und Compagnie 1796" and only 46 pages. - GV 1, 134 (with reference to the Wiener Zeitung 1796, p. 1079) gives "Lo Presti" as the author; this may be Francesco Lopresti, son of the Sicilian-born Baron Rocco di Lopresti (d. 1784), who directed the Vienna Hofburgtheater from 1747-1751. - A thoroughly serious, but also very amusing treatise on booing and expelling bad actors from the stage, with an overview of such incidents from antiquity to current events. A London opera-goer is also mentioned, who sang along enthusiastically but incorrectly to Italian arias in his seat - and was rudely ejected by the director. VAT: *
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