'Niccolò de' Lapi', opera in 4 acts, libretto by S. M. Maggioni. Role names mentioned: Selvagia, Laudonia or Laudomia, Lamberto, Fanfulla, Nicolò, Fra Benedetto. Composed for Her Majesty's Theatre and first performed there on 7 May 1863.1. Vocal score. A section beginning with recitative 'No, no,...
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
3 volumes. Text in Italian. Title on Act 1 front cover 'Vestale 1826 King's Theatre'. With some red chalk and pencil markings and cuts made with sewing. Singer's name 'Madm Caradori' added (Act 1 Finale). Name (of chorus master?) added to Act 3 front cover, 'Mr LeJeune'. Also with a list of choru...
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'.
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).
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).