The favourite songs in the opera call'd Orione, o sia, Diana vendicata. No. I.

Record ID: 
311867
Accession number: 
PMC 2054
Creator: 
Bach, Johann Christian, 1735-1782.
Title: 
The favourite songs in the opera call'd Orione, o sia, Diana vendicata. No. I.
Uniform title: 
Orione. Selections
Published: 
London : Printed for I. Walsh, in Catharine Street in the Strand, [1763].
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2007.
Notes: 

For voice with chamber orchestra acc.; unrealized figured bass for keyboard instrument.
Issued as two sets in one volume, with one general t.p.; both sets of songs are present, the "No. I" notwithstanding.
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Libretto by G.G. Bottarelli.
1st ed.
Singers named in caption titles of the individual operas: Sigr. Ciardini, Sigra. De Amicis, Sigra. Cremonini, and Sigra. Segantini.
First performed on 19 February 1763 at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, London.
Engraved throughout.

Provenance: 

Gerald Edward Coke.

Associated names: 

Bottarelli, Giovan Gualberto, librettist.
Ciardini, Domenico, singer.
De Amicis, Anna Lucia, 1733-1816, singer.
Segantini, Livia, singer.
Cremonini, Clementina, singer.
Walsh, John, d. 1766, publisher.
Coke, Gerald Edward, former owner.

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Department: 
Music Manuscripts and Printed Music
Music Collection: 
Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection