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Title
Astiage
Drama per musica : nel famoso Teatro Grimani di SS. Gio. e Paolo l'anno M.DC.LXXVII. [i.e., 1677] : consagrato all'illustrissimo, & eccellentissimo signor Alvise Contarini, fù dell'Illustriss., & Eccellentiss. Sig. Pietro
Creator
Viviani, Giovanni Bonaventura
Composer
Noris, Matteo, 1640-1714
Librettist
Apolloni, Giovanni Filippo, approximately 1635-1688
Librettist
Contarini, Alvise di Pietro
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; librettist-adapter's dedication, signed "Matteo Noris"--p. 3-4; librettist-adapter's foreword--p. 5; "Dilucidatione del drama"--p. 6; scene and ballet descriptions--p. 8.
Author of original libretto was "signor cavalier Appoloni"--foreword.
Music by Viviani--foreword.
"Con licenza de' superiori, e priuilegio"--title page.
"Balli[:] nel principio del Primo atto, Abbatimento finto di soldati; nel fine del Primo di paggi; nel fine del Secondo, Di spiriti con l'aspeto di Deità"--p. 8.
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
71, 1 p. 15 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00033
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Astiage
Armidoro
Mandane
Cleante
Cambise
Rosane
Artamene
Eurimante
Arconte
Sitalce
Lindo
Ombra di Cirene
Caronte

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