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Title
Totila
Drama per mvsica nel famosissimo Teatro Grimano di SS. Gio: e Paolo l'anno M.DC.LXXVII
Creator
Legrenzi, Giovanni, 1626-1690
Composer
Noris, Matteo, 1640-1714
Librettist
Ferdinando Carlo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, 1652-1708
Dedicatee
Date Created and/or Issued
1677
Publication Information
In Venetia
Per Francesco Nicolini
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
Italian Librettos
Rights Information
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Description
Three acts with final "torneo"; librettist's dedication--p. 3-6; "Delvcidatione"--p. 7-8; scene and ballet descriptions--p. 10; imprint repeated as colophon.
Music by Legrenzi--New Grove.
"Con licenza de'superiorie priuilegio"--title page.
"Scene del torneo: di cielo; terrestre; di foco; maritima."--p. 10.
"Balli: abbatimento frà Vandali,e Romani; pastori con fiere"--p. 10.
"Real torneo"; four elements represented by mythological figures and Peace--p. 77-79.
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
79, 1 p. 14 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00099
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Totila
Vitige
Teodato
Belisario
Lepido
Cina
Servio
Marzia
Publicola
Clelia
Desbo
Floro
Giunone
Cibelle
Plutone
Nettuno
Pace

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