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Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/50
Title:: Gioachino Rossini: 'Ricciardo e Zoraide'.
Scope & Content:: 'Ricciardo e Zoraide', 'dramma' in 2 acts, libretto by Francesco Berio di Salsa after Niccolò Forteguerri. Role names mantioned: Agorante, Ricciardo, Ircano. First performed at San Carlo, Naples, on 3 December 1818. First performed in London at the King's Theatre on 5 June 1823. 1. Vocal score o...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1823]
Extent:: 240 x 300mm. In limp card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/51
Title:: Gioachino Rossini: 'Semiramide'
Scope & Content:: 'Semiramide', opera in 2 acts, libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Voltaire. Role names mentioned: Arsace, Assur, Idreno. First performed at the Teatro la Fenice, Venice, on 3 February 1823. First performed in London at the King's Theatre on 15 July 1824.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1823-1840]
Extent:: 4 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/53
Title:: Gioachino Rossini: 'Tancredi'
Scope & Content:: 'Tancredi', opera in 2 acts, libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Torquato Tasso's poem 'Gerusalemme liberata' and Voltaire's 'Tancrède'. First performed at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, on 6 February 1813. First performed in London at the King's Theatre on 4 May 1820.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1820]
Extent:: 2 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/54
Title:: Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha: 'Casilda'
Scope & Content:: 'Casilda', opera in 4 acts, libretto and ballet by M. Tenelli, the pseudonym of J. H. Millenet. Role names mentioned: Don Luis de Calatrava, Donna Anna, Alfonso de Bercade, Gomez, Casilda, Pueblo, Rosita. First performed at Gotha, in German, on 23 March 1851. First performed in London at Her Maje...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1852]
Extent:: 17 files. Mostly in limp brown card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/56
Title:: Johann Gottfried Schwanenberger: 'Romeo e Giulia'.
Scope & Content:: 'Romeo e Giulia', opera in 2 acts, libretto by J. R. Sanseverino after Shakespeare. Full score, 2 volumes. Title on front cover label of Act 1 volume, 'Dramma per Musica a 3 Voci in 2 Atti'. Text in Italian. Role names: Romeo, Giulia, Benvoglio. First performed in Brunswick, 1776.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: 1776
Extent:: 360 x 230mm. Bound in patterned blue-green limp card covers

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/57
Title:: Gasparo Spontini: 'La Vestale'
Scope & Content:: 'La Vestale', opera in 3 acts, libretto by Etienne de Jouy. Partial full score, vocal scores and chorus parts. Role names mentioned: Julia or Giulia, Licinio or Licinius, Cinna, Gran Vestale. First performed at the Paris Opéra on 16 December 1807. First performed in London at the King's Theatre, ...
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: English and Italian
Date Range:: [1826]
Extent:: 8 files

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/57/1
Title:: 'La Vestale'. Full score of parts of Act 1
Scope & Content:: Text in Italian. With red chalk markings and cuts made with paste-overs.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1826]
Extent:: 240 x 310mm

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/57/4
Title:: 'La Vestale'. Soprano chorus parts.
Scope & Content:: Soprano 1, soprano 2, soprano 3 'or contra alto'. Text in Italian. With red chalk markings and cuts made with pinning. Some with paste-over label of J. H. Mapleson. Two soprano 3 parts have a stamp of Monck Mason. Chorus names added: 'Miss Lee', 'Mrs Jones Decr 1831', 'Mrs Saunders'.
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1826]
Extent:: 270 x 330mm. In pale limp card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/57/5
Title:: 'La Vestale'. Tenor and bass chorus parts.
Scope & Content:: Tenor 1, tenor 2, bass. Text in Italian. Some with paste-over label of J. H. Mapleson. Cuts made with pinning. Some have a stamp of Monck Mason. Chorus names added: 'Mr Jones', 'Mr Corri', 'Mr Price', One bass part has singer's name 'Begni' [Giuseppe De Begnis] added. (Finale of Act 1).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: Italian
Date Range:: [1826]
Extent:: 270 x 330mm. In pale limp card covers.

Reference (shelfmark):: MS Mus. 1715/57/6
Title:: 'La Vestale'. Soprano chorus parts.
Scope & Content:: Soprano 1, numbered 1-4; - Soprano 2, numbered 5-8; - Soprano 3, numbered 9-12. Grouped in order of performance; Act 1, Act 2, Act 3. Text in Italian, though one part has some text in French added in red ink (Soprano 1, beginning of Act 2).
Collection Area:: Music Collections
Languages:: French and Italian
Date Range:: [c 1827]
Extent:: 310 x 250mm.

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