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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/24
Title:: Francesco Gnecco: 'La prova di un'Opera Seria'
Scope & Content:: 'La prova di un'Opera Seria', opera in 2 acts by Francesco Gnecco, libretto by the composer. Viola part only. On green paper with blind stamp of Charnez, Paris. With red chalk markings and cuts made with paste-overs and pinning. Role names mentioned: Corilla, Federico, Campanone. First performed ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1840]
Extent:: 330 x 260mm. In pale blue limp card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/25
Title:: Francesco Gnecco, 'Il Geloso coretto'
Scope & Content:: 'Il Geloso coretto, 'farsa' in 2 acts. Full score of Sinfonia only. Autograph (?). Title page reads 'Originale del Maestro. Il Geloso Coretto. Farza. Sinfonia. Del Maestro Franc[esc]o Gnecco. In Venezia 1803'. First performed in Venice on 18 April 1803.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 250 x 320mm

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/26
Title:: Pietro Carlo Guglielmi, 'Romeo e Giulietta'
Scope & Content:: 'Romeo e Giulietta', opera seria in 2 acts by Pietro Carlo Guglielmi, libretto by Buonaiuti. Full score and 2 voice parts. Role names mentioned: Fra Lorenzo, Paride, Tebaldo, Antonio, Bianca. Composed for the King's Theatre, and first performed there on 20 February 1810. Guglielmi lived in London...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: 1810
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/27
Title:: Jacques François Halévy: 'La Tempesta'
Scope & Content:: 'La tempesta', opera in a prologue and 4 acts, libretto by Eugene Scribe after Shakespeare, originally written in French for Mendelssohn, this Italian translation by Pietro Giannone. Orchestral parts. Written for Her Majesty's Theatre, London, and first performed on 8 June 1850, with final rehear...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1850]
Extent:: 4 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/29
Title:: Count Marco Aurelio Marliani: 'Ildegonda'
Scope & Content:: 'Ildegonda', opera in 3 acts, libretto by Pietro Giannone; 1837. First performed at the Théâtre Italien, Paris, on 7 March 1837. First performed in London at the King's Theatre, 18 July 1837. The first performance was attended by Queen Victoria; it was from this date that the theatre was known as...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1837]
Extent:: 3 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/30
Title:: Johann Simone Mayr: 'L'amor coniugale'
Scope & Content:: 'L'amor coniugale', 'farsa sentimentale', in 1 act, libretto by Gaetano Rossi. The libretto was based on Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's text for Gaveaux's 'Léonore, ou l'Amour conjugal', the source for Beethoven's 'Fidelio'. Full score. On title page, 'L'amor coniugale. Dramma di Sentimento in un Atto......
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1806
Extent:: 240 x 330mm

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/31
Title:: Johann Simone Mayr: 'Medea in Corinto'
Scope & Content:: 'Medea in Corinto', 'melodrama tragico' in 2 acts, libretto by Felice Romani. Role names mentioned: Giasone, Creusa. First performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 28 November 1813. First performed in London at the King's Theatre on 1 June 1826, and revived there until 1850. Theatre pasted...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1826]
Extent:: 330 x 260mm. In pale blue limp card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/32
Title:: Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante: 'I Normanni a Parigi'
Scope & Content:: 'I Normanni a Parigi', 'tragedia lirica' in 2 acts, libretto by Felice Romani. Role names mentioned: Ebbone, Tebaldo, Berta, Odone, Osvino, Ordamante. First performed at the Teatro Regio, Turin, on 7 February 1832.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1832]
Extent:: 3 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/33
Title:: Giuseppe Saverio Mercadante: 'La Vestale'
Scope & Content:: 'La Vestale', lyric tragedy in 3 acts, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano. First performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 10 March 1840. Announced for London (in 'The Era', 9 January 1842), but apparently not performed.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1840]
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/34
Title:: Giacomo Meyerbeer: 'L'Esule di Granata'
Scope & Content:: 'L'Esule di Granata', melodramma serio in 2 acts, libretto by Felice Romani. Full score. Role names mentioned: Azema, Almazar, (Almazor, Almanzor) Alamar, Ali, Omar, Sulimano (Solimano), Zaide (Zeida), Fatima, Il Re. First performed at La Scala, Milan, on 12 March 1821.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1821]
Extent:: 2 files

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