Il giuramento [Piano-vocal score]
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- Napoli: B. Girard e Ci. [PNs 3419-22, 3433-36, 3439-40, 4068-4077, 4104-09], 1850
Napoli: B. Girard e Ci. [PNs 3419-22, 3433-36, 3439-40, 4068-4077, 4104-09], 1850. Oblong folio. Dark red leather-backed textured green cloth boards, marbled endpapers. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), 3-201, [i] (blank) pp. Each number with separate caption title and secondary pagination. Engraved.
From the collection of Italian conductor, vocal coach, and close associate of Puccini and Mascagni, Luigi Ricci (1893-1981); previous owner's name ("Prof. Rigillo") and address to title; handstamp ("Scuola di canto del Mo. Lombardini") to title and many pages throughout.
Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped; remnants of paper label to spine. Light foxing and thumbing throughout. First Naples Edition, later issue, with alternative numbers.
Il giuramento, a melodramma in 3 acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Victor Hugo's Angelo (1835), premiered in Milan at La Scala on 11 March 1837.
Mercadante had a string of successes following his years of study in Paris. Beginning with Il giuramento, he gradually developed a more dramatic opera form that earned him the respect of contemporaries such as Liszt.
From the collection of Italian conductor, vocal coach, and close associate of Puccini and Mascagni, Luigi Ricci (1893-1981); previous owner's name ("Prof. Rigillo") and address to title; handstamp ("Scuola di canto del Mo. Lombardini") to title and many pages throughout.
Binding somewhat worn, rubbed, and bumped; remnants of paper label to spine. Light foxing and thumbing throughout. First Naples Edition, later issue, with alternative numbers.
Il giuramento, a melodramma in 3 acts to a libretto by Gaetano Rossi after Victor Hugo's Angelo (1835), premiered in Milan at La Scala on 11 March 1837.
Mercadante had a string of successes following his years of study in Paris. Beginning with Il giuramento, he gradually developed a more dramatic opera form that earned him the respect of contemporaries such as Liszt.