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Title
Il Creso
Drama da rappresentarsi nel famosissimo Teatro Grimano di S. Gio: Grisostomo l'anno M.DC.LXXXI. [i.e. 1681]
Creator
Legrenzi, Giovanni, 1626-1690
Composer
Corradi, Giulio Cesare
Librettist
Mora, Giovanni Battista
Dedicatee
Date Created and/or Issued
1681
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's dedication--p. 3-7; foreword--p. 8; "Delvcidatione"--p. 9-10; scene descriptions--p. 12.
Music by Legrenzi--foreword.
"Con licenza de'sup. e priuilegio"--title page.
"Segue il Ballo di giardinieri è struzzi"--p. 34.
"Il Riso in Machina con suoi seguaci, e maschere sedenti intorno alla Piazza...discende dalla Machina con suoi seguaci i quali formano leggiadrissimo ballo, interotto poi dal medesimo...Il Riso co[n] suoi compagni prendendo per mano ciascheduno vna della Maschere, dà principio ad vn'altra danza informa del passo, e mezzo, e partono di scena."--p. 61-2.
Performers' names not given.
US-BEm
Type
text
Extent
80 p. 15 cm.
Identifier
(librettos)00084
Language
Italian
Subject
Operas--Librettos
Creso
Feraspe
Doriclea
Emirena
Arbace
Solone
Arideno
Gelso
Leno

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