The Howard Mayer Brown Libretto Collection - Newberry Library

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Alessand ri.
performed at: [Firenze], Teatro di Via della
Pergola, Fall, 1783.
names: Pietro Leopoldo (dee); Gaetano Riccioli
(sce); Pasquale SoUili (sce); Domenico Fabbroni
(sce); Giuseppe Borgini (sce); Pietro d'Anton
Fabbrini (cst); Gio Battista Minghi (cst);
Domenico Ie Fevre (chr); Giuseppe Canziani (chr).
cast: Florido Ferri; Brig ida Giorgi Banti; Luigi
Marchesi; Cammilla Onorati; Giuseppe Simoni;
Francesco Casini Papi.
roles: Valentiniano III; Fulvia; Ezio; Onoria;
Massimo; Varo.
ballets: Ballets outlined pp. 5-6: "Ballo primo: La
Discesa d'Ercole Nei Campielisi, 0 sia Admeto, e
Alceste. Ballo secondo: La Festa di Flora, e
I'altro Ballo, che si dana in appresso avra per
titolo: II Pigmalione" (cf. BLC #104b). Corps de
ballet listed.
misc.: Orchestra members and 20-member
chorus listed. First perf:
Verona/Filharmonica/carnival 1767.
Firenze: Giovanni RisalitL 1783. 46 pp.
Cf. Sartori 9551.
BLC #104a
481. "Ezio. Dramma per musica [House
libretto}. "
text: Pietro Metastasio. music: Anonymous.
performed at: Pisa, Teatro del Pubblico di Pisa,
[1732].
cast: Apollonia Guerra di Mantovi; Rosa Cirilli di
Napoli; Lucia Lanzetti di Venezia; Diamante
Benamati di Bologna; Filippo Rondinelli di Napoli;
Elisabetta Irlandieri di Roma.
roles: Valentiniano; Fulvia; Ezio; Onoria;
Massimo; Varo.
misc.: Libretto significantly altered for revision
(cf. BLC # 637b): text crossed out and new text
included on handwritten leaves glued onto pages.
Lucca: Salvatore e Giandomenico Marescandoli.
1732. 84 pp.
ct. Weaver 1735 3 .
BLC #637a
482. "L'Ezio. Dramma serio per musica."
text: [Pietro Metastasio}. music: Anonymous.
performed at: Modena. Teatro Rangone, 1787,
carnival.
names: Ercole III duca di Modena (dee); Agostino
Golfini (chr); Vincenzo Conti bolognese (sce);
Giovanni Busotti milanese (cst); Sig Fabbri
bolognese (cst).
cast: Giacomo Giordani; Veronica Masini;
Gaspare Savoia; Camilla Guidi; Giuseppe
Forlivesi; Girolamo Cruciati.
roles: Valentiniano III; Fulvia; Ezio; Onoria;
Massimo; Varo.
ballets: Corps de ballet listed.
Modena: eredi di Bartolomeo Soliani. [1787]. 47
pp.
Ct. Sartori 9557.
BLC #274
483. "The Fair American. Songs, Duets, &c in
the Fair American. Comic opera."
text: Anonymous. music: Anonymous.
performed at: London, Drury Lane, 1782.
cast: Mr Bannister; Mr Dodd; Mr du Bellamy; Mr
Parsons; Miss Phillips; Miss Wheeler; Mrs
Wrighten.
roles: Admiral Dreadnought; Carbine; Summers;
Bale; Angelica; Charlotte; Rachel.
misc.: Not full libretto; songs only.
London: T. Evans. f1782l. 22 pp.
BLC #103
484. "The Fairy Queen. An opera [modern
facsimile]."
text: [E Settle]. music: [Henry Purcell].
performed at: London, Queen's Theatre, [16921.
roles: The Duke; Egeus; Lysander; Demetrius;
Hermia; Helena; Oberon; Titania; Robin-Good-
Fellow; Bottom; Quince: Shug; Flute; Snout:
Starveling.
ballets: Dance roles named.
misc.: BLC #188 is a facsimile reprint of a
libretto in the Birmingham Shakespeare Library.
Libretto based on Shakespeare's "A Midsummer
Night's Dream."
London: Jacon Tonson [rpt. Cornmarket Press].
1692 [rpt. 1969]. iv + 52 pp.
BLC #188
485. "The Fairy Urgele. or What Pleases the
Ladies. A marionette opera in four acts [modern
program book and libretto}."
text: Karl Joseph von Pauersbach; Charles Simon
Favart; Cecil Adkins (trans. and ed.). music:
Ignatz Pleya!.
cast: listed.
misc.: Von Pauersbach's libretto after Favart;
edited and translated by Adkins "from a copy of
the original printed libretto kindly furnished by
his Highness Prince Paul Esterhazy from the
family archives in Eisenstadt." 2 copies of BLC
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