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Reference (shelfmark):: Ms Mus. 1715/18
Title:: Gaetano Donizetti: 'Torquato Tasso'
Scope & Content:: 'Torquato Tasso', opera in 3 acts, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti. Chorus parts. First performed at the Teatro Valle, Rome, on 9 September 1833. First performed in London at Her Majesty's Theatre on 3 March 1840.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1840]
Extent:: 3 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/19
Title:: Valentino Fioravanti: 'I Virtuosi Ambulanti'
Scope & Content:: 'I Virtuosi Ambulanti', opera buffa in 2 acts, libretto by G. L. Balocchi, a translation from the French of Picard ('Les Comediens Ambulants'). Printed full scores, 2 copies. First performed at the Théâtre Italien, Paris, on 26 September 1807. First performed in London at the King's Theatre, also...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1807]
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/20
Title:: Pietro Generali: 'La Cecchina'
Scope & Content:: 'La Cecchina', 'farsa' in 1 act, libretto by Gaetano Rossi. Full score, incomplete. Title on front page 'La Cecchina Del Sigr Maestro Pietro Generali'. Text in Italian. No performance markings. Role names mentioned: Cecchina, Enrico, Fiorina, Andrea, il Duca di Rosimondi, Consigliero. First perfo...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [c 1840]
Extent:: 230 x 330mm

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/21
Title:: Pietro Generali: 'La Chiara di Rosemberg'
Scope & Content:: 'La chiara di Rosemberg', opera in 3 acts, libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Full score of Acts 2 and 3, incomplete. Text in Italian. No performance markings. Role names mentioned: Chiara, Carlotta, Eufemia, Mortalbano, Eustacchio, Pistacchio, Valmor. First performed at the Teatro Nuovo, Naples, ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [c 1820]
Extent:: 230 x 330mm

Reference (shelfmark):: Ms Mus. 1715/22
Title:: Pietro Generali: 'Le lagrime d'una Vedova'
Scope & Content:: 'Le lagrime d'una Vedova', 'farsa' in 1 act, libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa. Full score, 2 copies. Role names mentioned: Finetta, Ermenilda, Edoardo, Alberto, Aristippo, Solitario. First performed at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice, on 26 December 1808. There is an opera with the same title by G F...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1808]
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/23
Title:: Pietro Generali: 'La Pamela nubile'
Scope & Content:: 'La Pamela nubile', 'farsa', libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Goldoni's 'La buona figliuola'. Full score. Text in Italian. Title page reads 'La Pamella Nubile. Farsa Del Sigr. Pietro Generali. Venezia in S. Benedetto l'Estate 1804'. Role names mentioned: Pamela, Miledi, Bonfel, Artur, Anderson, Er...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1804
Extent:: 230 x 330mm

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

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