MARLIANI, Marco Aurelio 1805-1849

Il bravo [Piano-vocal score]

Opera in tre Atti ... rappresentata per la prima volta sul Teatro Reale Italiano a Parigi ... Per Canto: Prezzo Fr 30.

Milano: Gio. Ricordi [PNs 7676-7691], [1835].

Oblong folio. Green cloth-backed marbled boards with small musicseller's paper label to foot of upper. 1f. (title), 1f. (cast list, contents), 5-203, [1] (blank) pp. Each number with separate caption title and secondary pagination. Engraved.

Handstamp of "Libreria alla Minerva Verona" to foot of title, handstamp "Proprieta della Ditta L. Menegazzoli" to first page of music.

Binding rather worn, rubbed, and bumped; boards with central vertical crack; endpapers creased and slightly soiled. Occasional light foxing throughout.

First Italian edition, published shortly after the French edition of Pacini. Scarce (2 copies located in the US, at NYPL and UC Berkely).

Il bravo, in 3 acts to a libretto by Angelo Berettini after the novel by James Fenimore Cooper, premiered in Paris at the Théâtre Italien on 1 February 1834.

Marliani studied in Paris with Rossini where his first opera, Il bravo, premiered in 1834. He followed this with several more operas, including his best-known, La xacarilla (1839), before returning to Italy. A fervent nationalist, he joined the Italian army during the First Italian War of Independence, falling in battle during the Siege of Bologna in May 1849.

Item #33434

Price: $285.00  other currencies