RICCI, Luigi 1805-1859

Un'Avventura di Scaramuccia. Melodramma comico di Felice Romani. [Piano-vocal score]

Milan: Ricordi [PN 7475-7493], ca. 1835.

Oblong folio. Leather-backed marbled boards with titling gilt to spine. 1f. (title), 1f. (cast list, contents), 5-264 pp. With contemporary signature to title page. Engraved throughout.

Binding worn, rubbed and bumped. Minor foxing and browning; corners thumbed; minor marginal tears, some repairs; remnants of early binding to inner margin of title page.

First Edition. Rare. OCLC 32110020 (1 copy only).

Un'Avventura di Scaramuccia was first performed in Milan at La Scala on 8 March 1834.

The Italian composer Ricci achieved "a notable success with Un'avventura di Scaramuccia, written to a witty libretto, part romance, part theatrical satire, by Felice Romani ... [His] is one of the more individual voices of Italian opera of the period. His chief gift was for comedy, to which he brought not only a complete mastery of the traditional devices but also a new, robust buffo manner characterized by a wealth of bouncing allegretto melodies, mostly in duple time, and a not infrequent use of folktune." Julian Budden in Grove Music Online.

Item #12565

Price: $350.00  other currencies