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Title

The favourite songs in the opera call'd Merode & Olympia : as perform'd at the Theatre in the Hay-market.

Publication

London : Printed for and sold by I. Walsh, servant to his Majesty, at ye Harp and Hoboy in Catherine Street in the Strand, [approximately 1740]

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Additional Authors

• Zeno, Apostolo, 1668-1750
• Rolli, Paolo, 1687-1765
• Vinci, Leonardo, 1690-1730
• Pescetti, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1704-1766
• Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783
• Andreoni, Giovanni Battista, -1797
• Panichi, Lucia
• Carestini, Giovanni, 1700-1760?
• Walsh, John, 1709-1766
• Haymarket Theatre (London, England)
• John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) MH-H

Description

1 score (25 pages); 32 cm

Uniform Title

• Merode e Selinunte. Selections.
• Olimpia in Ebuda. Selections.

Subjects

• Operas > Excerpts > Scores
• Scores
• Excerpts
• Operas > England > London > 18th century
• Pasticcios (Music)
• Operas > 18th century
• 1700-1799

Genre/Form

• Operas.
• Scores.
• Excerpts.
• Pasticcios (Music)
• Operas – England – London – 18th century.

Note

• Eight arias for unspecified (high) voice and chamber orchestra; one recitative with keyboard accompaniment; unrealized figured bass for keyboard instrument.
• Singers named in caption titles of the individual arias: Sigr. [Giovanni Battista] Andreoni, Sigra. Moscovita [pseudonym of Lucia Panichi] and Sigr. [Giovanni] Carestini.
• Librettist of Meride e Selinunte is Zeno; the librettist of Olimpia in Ebuda is Rolli--Cf. New Grove opera.
• Meride e Selinunte was first performed on 22 January 1740 at the New Haymarket Theatre; Olimpia in Ebuda was first performed on 15 March 1740 at the same theatre--Cf. The London stage, pt. 3.
• Engraved throughout.

Indexed In (note)

• RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales)

Language (note)

• Italian words.

Contents

Si spero fra tempeste ["Sung by Sigr. Andreoni in Merode"] / Vinci -- S'altri fece le Catene ["Sung by Sigra. Moscovita in Merode] / Pescetti -- Presso al caro amato ["Sung by Sigr. Carestini in Merode"] -- Spietato? che pena? ["Sung by Sigra. Moscovita in Merode"] -- Porta già bramata ["Sung by Sigra. Moscovita in Olimpia"] / Hasse -- Non pensar ch'ogn'altro amante ["Sung by Sigra. Andreoni in Olimpia"] / Hasse -- Questo mio bene è dolce inganno [ "Sung by Signr. Andreoni in Olimpia"] -- Belta' negletta da un incostante ["Sung by Sigra. Moscovita in Olimpia"] / Pescetti.

Call Number

JOG 21-8

OCLC

80709539

Title

The favourite songs in the opera call'd Merode & Olympia : as perform'd at the Theatre in the Hay-market.

Publisher

London : Printed for and sold by I. Walsh, servant to his Majesty, at ye Harp and Hoboy in Catherine Street in the Strand, [approximately 1740]

Type of Content

notated music

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales), B/II, page 178.

Language

Italian words.

Staff notation.

Local Note

Former classmark: Mus. Res. *MSI (favourite songs in the opera call'd Merode & Olympia)

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Chronological Term

1700-1799

Place of Publication

England London.

Added Author

Zeno, Apostolo, 1668-1750, librettist.

Rolli, Paolo, 1687-1765, librettist.

Vinci, Leonardo, 1690-1730, composer.

Pescetti, Giovanni Battista, approximately 1704-1766, composer.

Hasse, Johann Adolf, 1699-1783, composer.

Andreoni, Giovanni Battista, -1797, singer.

Panichi, Lucia, singer.

Carestini, Giovanni, 1700-1760?, singer.

Walsh, John, 1709-1766, publisher.

Haymarket Theatre (London, England)

John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection) MH-H

Added Title

Olimpia in Ebuda. Selections.

Research Call Number

JOG 21-8