Debts and Destiny New Findings on Antonio Maria Peruzzi and the Origin of His Opera Touring Business
Journal: transcript Verlag eBooks
Year: 2021

The title Debts and Destiny, which sounds like a Jane Austen novel such as Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility, alludes to the seemingly fictitious story of the first great impresario of touring opera troupes in the 18 th century, Antonio Maria Peruzzi.But whereas Jane Austen's stories deal with the vicissitudes of love his story is, in contrast, one of the vices of crime.Until now, not much has been known about Peruzzi.He was a native Venetian and appears in Leipzig in 1722, virtually