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1 juin 2017
- handle: 10670/1.3c79ve
- isbn: 9781783742134
- eisbn: 9782821881648
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Massimo Zicari, « 15. The Late 1860s and Wagner’s L’Olandese dannato (1870) », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.3c79ve
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The year 1867 came to an end with a terrible catastrophe striking Her Majesty’s Theatre: on 6 December, a Friday night, the theatre was totally destroyed by a fire the cause of which was not possible to ascertain. By January 1868, a property fund had already been announced and the patrons of the theatre were invited to subscribe in order to raise the money necessary for a speedy reopening, notwithstanding the dramatic financial losses incurred. In February, rumour had it that the two great op...