Piano-vocal score drafts of a recitative for Zelia, Dsheangir, and Nurmahal beginning "Seigneur à ton ordre supreme" and of an aria for Zelia beginning "Che comanda che desia"; a German translation in other hands has been added to both in red ink. Neither the recitative nor the aria appears in the first edition of the piano-vocal score (Berlin: Schlesinger, [1824]).
With three pages of text: (1) the text of "Che comanda che desia" in Spontini's hand; (2) a German translation of the text in the same hand that appears in the aria; and (3) another German translation of the aria text in a different hand.
Text by C.A. Herklots, based on Spicker's German translation of Moore's Lalla Rookh. See The New Grove Opera.
Herklots, Karl Alexander, 1759-1830, librettist.
Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852. Lalla Rookh.