Giovanna de Guzman : opera in cinque atti / con musica del Maestro Cav. Giuseppe Verdi ; per rappresentarsi al nobil Teatro Argentina nella primavera del 1856.

Record ID: 
110834
Accession number: 
GWM V19
Creator: 
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Title: 
Giovanna de Guzman : opera in cinque atti / con musica del Maestro Cav. Giuseppe Verdi ; per rappresentarsi al nobil Teatro Argentina nella primavera del 1856.
Uniform title: 
Vêpres siciliennes (Giovanna de Guzman). Libretto
Published: 
Roma : G. Olivieri, [1856?]
Notes: 

T.p.: p. [1]; "Avvertimento": p. [2]; "Personaggi," "Attori," and list of orchestra and theatre personnel: p. [3]; text: p. [5]-46; three censor's approvals, dated Rome, 8 March 1856, 1 April, and 4 April 1856: p. [47].
Original French libretto by E. Scribe and C. Duveyrier. Cf. New Grove dictionary of music and musicians.
Giovanna de Guzman is the (censored) Italian version of the opera. Cf. New Grove dictionary of opera.
The singers listed under "Attori" are: Filippo Coletti, Achille Carboni, Luigi Fossi, Gaetano Fraschini, Raffaele La-Terza, Teresa De Giuli-Borsi, Zelinda Sbriscia, Mariano Conti, Giuseppe Bazzoli, Girolamo Fossati, and Cesare Bossi.
Probable first edition for the first Rome performance (6 April 1856).

Associated names: 

Scribe, Eugène, 1791-1861.
Duveyrier, Charles, 1803-1866.
Martin, George Whitney, former owner.

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