Il crociato in Egitto : Melodramma eroico in due atti / Poesia di Gaetano Rossi ; Musica del Signor Maestro Giacomo Meyerbeer ; edited and introduced by Robert Ignatius Letellier.

Format:

Musical score

Author/Creator:

Rossi, Gaetano, 1774-1855.

Contributor:

Meyerbeer, Giacomo, 1791-1864.

Letellier, Robert Ignatius.

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2009.

Language Note:

Italian

Summary:

This book reproduces the Ricordi vocal score of Meyerbeer's last Italian opera (Milan, c. 1825). More than hardly any other opera of the first third of the nineteenth century, Il Crociato in Egitto (Venice, 1814) appears as work standing between the epochs. In its engagement Other the traditions of the melodramma, Meyerbeer exploited here to the full all the possibilities offered by the form, Otherout actually questioning its nature. Whereas Rossini in his Neapolitan operas had undertaken a...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; ACT 1; ACT 2

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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ISBN:

1-282-41311-2

9786612413117

1-4438-0696-X

OCLC:

823386137