L'Alessandro amante Drama per mvsica da rappresentarsi nel Teatro di San Moise l'anno MDCLXVII [i.e. 1667] : dedicato all'illvstrissimo signor Giovanni Mocenigo dell'Illustriss., & Eccell. signor Andrea
Creator
Boretti, Giovanni Antonio, approximately 1640-1672 Composer Vocalist Cicognini, Giacinto Andrea, 1606-approximately 1650 Librettist Mocenigo, Giovanni Dedicatee Enno, Sebastian Dedicator Librettist Santurini, Francesco, 1627-1688? Artist
Date Created and/or Issued
1667
Publication Information
In Venetia Per Francesco Nicolini, and Steffano Curti, Con licenza de' Superiori, & Privileggio
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Description
Three acts; frontispiece with motto "Alessandro. Amante."--p. [1]; dedication, dated and signed "Venetia li 28. genaro 1667 ... D. Sebastian Enno"--p. [7]-[8]; foreword--p. [9]-[10]; scene descriptions--p. [12]; "Prologo, Reggia di Giove; Gioue nel Trono in Maestà, La Fortuna, La Virtù"--p. [13]-[14]; page 1 (beginning of Act I) misnumbered 52. Libretto by Cicognini [finished by Enno after his death]; music by Boretti--foreword. Scenes and architecture by Francesco Santurini--p. [10] "Vengono otto mascherati, che scherzando, e ridendo attorno li sudetti formano il Ballo."--p. 24 "Quì escono otto schermitori, che riceuendo la disfida di Gano, tirano con lui diuersi colpi giocosi, poi fuggendo lui formano essi il ballo."--p. 46. List of Performers' names not given; Signor Gio: Antonio Borretti sang Sarrape--p. [10] US-BEm
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