The Swon Brothers - Whos Gonna Fill Their Shoes (The Voice Performance)

He headed an opera company in London (Royal Musical Academy). Here he experienced a strong opposition to decomp. English layers society. Against G. raised the campaign of the aristocracy. circles in opposition to the king (who patronized G.) - the representative of the Hanoverian dynasty. The Prince of Wales, feuding with the king, organized the so-called. The Great Opera and together with other representatives of the nobility were supported by fashionable Italian composers and authors of surface-virtuoso operas competing with G. G.'s independent nature complicated his relationship with the court. In addition, the higher clergy obstructed the conc. the performance of G.'s biblical oratorios. On the other hand, the genre of opera in which G. worked in England is Italian. opera series - was a stranger to the English. bourgeois-democratic. to the public and according to their conditional ancient mythological. subjects, and in foreign language. Advanced journalism (J. Addison, J. Swift, and others) attacked G., criticizing the reaction in his face. aesthetics anti-national pridv. aristocratic.operas. In 1728, the Opera of the Paupers was staged in London (text by J. Gay, music by J. Pepush) - a bourgeois.