Thursday, May 28, 2015

RUGGERIANA -- ANTONIO FANZAGLIA

Speranza

La Bradamante del Co. Pietro Paolo Bissari: drama per musica nel Teatro Grimano.
Venetia, Valvasense, 1650.

84 p. 135"".

Last page incorrectly aged 82. 

Our copy lacks the front, which should form . [1—2]. 

Three acts, with prologue. 

Author's dedication, argument, and scenario. 

The composer, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, is not mentioned. 

First performed, as indicated, carnival 1650. Scmnz 1731

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Bradamante, tragedie représentée par l’Academie royale de musique l’annee 1707.
Les paroles de M. Roy, & la musique e M. La Coste. LXIX. opera.
n. i., n. d. 14"". pl., 227-278 p. (Recueil général des opéra, t. '11:, Paris, 1710.)
Detached copy. Five acts with prologue. “Avertissement.”
First performed, as indicated, May 2, 1707. Scnn'rz 5353
Second copy. ML 48.1{4
Bradamante e Ruggero, ballet. See Monza’s Oreste.
Bradamante nell’ isola d’Alcina: drama a rappresentarsi in Parma nel novo Teatro di S. A. S. 11 carnevale dell’ anno 1729 . . .
Parma, Eredi di Paolo Monti, 1729. xii, 46, [I] p. 15"".

Three acts. 

Bv Antonio Fanzaglia (Schatz). 

Author’s dedication, argument, cast, scenario, and name of the composer, Riccardo Broschi. 

It appears from the dedication that the opera had reviously been performed at Roma in 1728. 

The title originally was “L'isola d’Alcina.” Scns'rz 1342

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