West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]
… period as the Queen's Theatre, depending on who was on the throne). Its high prices maintained exclusivity. As well as music it was a space for courtship, for flirting and, above all, for gossip. People would move between boxes which were a … by prostitutes) came to an end. Sociability at the opera declined to be replaced by a focus on appreciating the music. 4 4 . Jennifer Hall-Witt, Fashionable Acts: Opera and Elite Culture in London, 1780-1880 (Durham, NH: University … was the development of manners, deportment and a form of self-fashioning based upon appreciation of art, literature and music. Like the opera, balls and dinner parties underpinned an elaborate marriage market that allowed the elite to renew …
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