La Gioconda. Dramma in Quattro Atti di Tobia Gorrio [Arrigo Boito] ... Rappresentato per la prima volta nel Teatro alla Scala in Milano l'8 aprile 1876. Opera Completa per Canto e Pianoforte Riduzione di Michele Saladino. Netti Fr. 15-. Piano-vocal score

  • Milano: R. Stabilimento Ricordi [PNs 44864, 44864t, 44864a, 44864r, 44864z, 44864, 44975c], 1880
By PONCHIELLI, Amilcare 1834-1886
Milano: R. Stabilimento Ricordi [PNs 44864, 44864t, 44864a, 44864r, 44864z, 44864, 44975c], 1880. Large octavo. Full maroon cloth with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (recto dedication to the soprano Maddalena Mariani-Masi, performer of the lead role, verso blank), 1f. (recto title in black and red, verso device), 1f. (recto named cast list, verso blank), [5]-25,(libretto), [i] (contents), 345, [i] (blank) pp.

Named cast list includes Maddalena, Biancolini-Rodriguez, Ormondo, Barlani-Dini, Giuliano, Gottardo, Cornago, and Amedeo.

Binding quite worn and stained; corners rubbed and bumped; joints splitting at head and tail; hinges split. Minor internal wear, soiling, and foxing; some signatures split. Second edition, variant issue. Sirch pp.

La gioconda, a dramma lirico in four acts by Ponchielli to a libretto by Tobia Gorrio (Arrigo Boito) after Victor Hugo’s play Angélo, tyran de Padoue, was first performed in Milan at the Teatro alla Scala, on 8 April 1876.

Ponchilli "was the most important opera composer (Verdi apart) between the mid-19th century and the advent of the so-called ‘Giovane Scuola’." Julian Budden, Fedele D’Amico and Licia Sirch in Grove Music Online.

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