Falstaff : commedia lirica in 3 atti / di Arrigo Boito ; musica di Giuseppe Verdi ; riduzioni di Carlo Carignani.
Text based on Shakespeare's Merry wives of Windsor and King Henry IV.
Orchestral accompaniment arranged for piano.
Pl. no. 69000 appears on p. 63.
First complete ed.
Collation: half t.p.: p. [1]; t.p.: p. [3]; publisher's device and statement of rights: p. [4]; "Personaggi": p. [5]; "Indice": p. [7]; divisional t.p., Act 1, Scene 1: p. [9]; music (with further divisional title pages): p. 1-474 (2nd group).
Does not correspond in all respects to either Hopkinson 64 A or 64 A (a): the "Prima rappresentazione" line is not present on the t.p.; the names of the singers are listed under "Personaggi"; and the music is not engraved.
Blind stamp apparently dated "1/1893": p. [1].
Boito, Arrigo, 1842-1918, librettist.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Merry wives of Windsor.
Carignani, Carlo, arranger.