Otello [manuscript] : dramma tragico, ca. 1817.

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Otello [manuscript] : dramma tragico, ca. 1817.

A fair copy of the opera by Gioacchino Rossini. Full score, contemporary with the composer's own manuscript. Libretto by Francesco Berio, after Shakespeare's Othello.

1 ms. score (3 v.) ; 31 x 25 cm (obl. fo.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7280123

Folger Shakespeare Library

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Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti after Charles Perrault's Cendrillon and librettos by Charles-Guillaume Etienne for Nicolas Isouard's Cendrillon and Francesco Fiorini for Stefano Pavesi's Agatina, o La virtù premiata; first performed in Rome at the Teatro Valle, 25 January 1817; the Holtei translation first performed in Berlin 20 October 1825. Cf. A. Loewenberg. Annals of opera. From the description of Aschenbrödel : komische Oper in zwei Acten, für die Darstellung auf der Königstädt...