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1. MS Mus. 1715/59

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/59
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Attila'.
Scope & Content:
'Attila', opera, prologue and 3 acts, libretto by Temistocle Solera after Zacharias Werner. Vocal scores, chorus parts and orchestral parts. Role names mentioned: Ezio, Odabella, Foresto, Uldino. First performed at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, on 17 March 1846. First performed in London at Her M...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[c 1846]
Extent:
8 files.

2. MS Mus. 1715/16

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/16
Title:
Gaetano Donizetti: 'Poliuto'
Scope & Content:
'Poliuto', opera seria in 3 acts, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after Pierre Corneille. Composed for performance at Naples, 1838, but not passed by the censor. Rewritten as 'Les Martyrs', opera in 4 acts with libretto in French by Eugene Scribe, and first performed at the Paris Opéra on 10 Apri...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[1838-1841]
Extent:
350 x 280mm. Brown limp card covers.

3. MS Mus. 1715/60

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/60
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Ernani'
Scope & Content:
'Ernani', opera in 4 acts, libretto by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo. Full score (Acts 3 and 4 only), vocal score, chorus parts and some orchestral parts. Some of the material has plate numbers of the publisher Ricordi from the sequence 15101-15300: according to the Ricordi catalogue, t...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1845]
Extent:

7 files

4. MS Mus. 1715/62

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/62
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Jerusalem'
Scope & Content:
'Jerusalem', opera in 4 acts. The opera was first performed as 'I Lombardi alla prima Crociata' in Milan, in Italian, on 11 February 1843. 'Jerusalem', a new version in French, with the libretto translated by Alphonse Royer and Gustav Vaëz, was first performed in Paris on 26 November 1847. The op...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1847-1848]
Extent:
330 x 235mm and 230 x 330mm. The full score in a blue card cover with marbled paper spine.

5. MS Mus. 1715/65

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/65
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Nabucco'.
Scope & Content:
'Nabucco', opera in 4 acts, libretto by Temistocle Solera after Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu. Vocal scores, chorus parts and some orchestral parts. First performed at La Scala, Milan, on 9 March 1842. First performed in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, in Italian, as 'Nino', on 3 March 1846.
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1842]
Extent:
6 files.

6. MS Mus. 1715/38

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/38
Title:
Otto Nicolai: 'Il templario'.
Scope & Content:
'Il templario', opera in 3 acts, libretto by Girolamo Maria Marini, based on Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Excerpt beginning 'Ah quel guardo non celar', with alternative words written in, 'E pur giunto, invan celar'. Title on title page: 'Cavatina nell'Oppera il Templario'. Full score. With red chalk m...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
English and Italian
Date Range:
[c 1840]
Extent:
250 x 340mm.

7. MS Mus. 1715/58

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/58
Title:
Sigismund Thalberg: 'Florinda'.
Scope & Content:
'Florinda', opera in 4 acts, libretto by Eugene Scribe, Italian translation by Pietro Giannone. Vocal scores, vocal parts and orchestral parts. The orchestral parts have red chalk markings and cuts made with paste-overs, sewing and pinning. Role names mentioned: Rodrigo, Munuzza, Teodomir, Flori...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1851
Extent:

18 files.

8. MS Mus. 1715/63

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/63
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'Luisa Miller'.
Scope & Content:
'Luisa Miller', opera in 3 acts, libretto by Salvatore Cammarano after Schiller. Full score, vocal scores, chorus parts and orchestral parts. First performed at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples, on 8 December 1849. First performed in London at Her Majesty's Theatre on 8 June 1858. On the substitution...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[c 1849-1858]
Extent:
20 files

9. MS Mus. 1715/64

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/64
Title:
Giuseppe Verdi: 'I Masnadieri'.
Scope & Content:
'I Masnadieri', opera in 4 acts, libretto by Andrea Maffei after Schiller. Written by Verdi for Her Majesty's Theatre. Full score, vocal score, orchestral parts and some chorus parts. Some of the orchestral parts have stamps of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. The vocal score contains an ear...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
[1847]
Extent:
8 files

10. MS Mus. 1715/67

Reference (shelfmark):
MS Mus. 1715/67
Title:
Joseph Weigl: 'L'Uniforme'.
Scope & Content:
'L'Uniforme', opera in 3 acts, Libretto by Giuseppe Carpani. Full score. Text in Italian. Role names mentioned: Giannina, Sandra, Bastiano, Giorgio, Capitano, Sargente, generale, Soldato 1, 2, 3, 4, Auditore, Maestro. Composed at the request of the Empress Maria-Theresa and first performed at Sch...
Collection Area:
Music Collections
Languages:
Italian
Date Range:
1805
Extent:
3 files