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Title
La costanza di Rosmonda
Drama per musica
Creator
Volpe, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1620-1691
Composer
Aureli, Aurelio, -1708
Librettist
Grimani Calergi, Vittorio
Dedicatee
Moscatelli, Alfonso
Artist
Franchi, Orazio
Costume designer
Date Created and/or Issued
1659
Publication Information
In Venetia
Per il Valuasense
Si vende in Frezzaria, e Spadaria
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
Italian Librettos
Rights Information
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Description
Three acts; librettist's dedication--p. 3-4; librettist's foreword--p. 5-6; "Argomento de i fatti antecedenti à quelli del drama"--p. 7-9; scene descriptions--p. 10-11; "Prologo ... La Luna, Il Tempo, La Poesia, La Fortuna"--p. 13-16; synopsis in verse for each act immediately preceding it; afterword containing suggested cuts and alternate text passages--p. 91-92.
Music for La costanza di Rosimonda [sic] by Giovanni Battista Volpe (pseudonym: Rovettino)--Dizionario della musica e dei musicisti.
"Con licenza de' superiori, e priuilegio"--title page.
Scenery by Alfonso Moscatelli, costumes by Horatio Franchi--foreword.
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
92, 4 p. 15 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00009
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Luna
Tempo
Poesia
Fortuna
Rosmonda
Pelope
Alfea
Vespino
Agamennone
Clitennestra
Oreste
Simo
Antipatro
Cirene
Aurindo
Floro
Gloria
Virtù
Fortezza

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