Xerxes : an opera : as it is perform'd at the King's theatre in the Hay-Market / compos'd by Mr. Handel.

Record ID: 
113607
Creator: 
Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759.
Title: 
Xerxes : an opera : as it is perform'd at the King's theatre in the Hay-Market / compos'd by Mr. Handel.
Uniform title: 
Serse
Published: 
London : Printed for & sold by I. Walsh, musick printer and instrument maker to his Majesty, at the Harp & Hoboy in Catherine Street in the Strand, [1738]
Notes: 

Opera in 3 acts; unrealized figured bass for keyboard instrument.
"A table of songs ... ": p. [3].
Advertisement on p. [5]: "Musick compos'd by Mr. Handel. Printed and sold by John Walsh in Catherine Street: Alexander's feast . . . All the operas transpos'd for the comon flute in three volumes, and a great variety of new concertos . . . and vocal musick, compos'd by the most eminent authors in Europe."
Libretto by an unknown author, after libretti by N. Minato and S. Stampiglia.
Singers named in caption titles of the individual arias: Sigr. Caffarelli (also called Caffariello), Sigra. Francessina [i.e., E. Duparc], Sigra. Chimenti, Sigra. Merighi, Sigr. Montagnanna (also called Montagnana),Sigr. Lottoni (also called Lottini), and Sigra. Luchesina.
Engraved.
First ed.

Provenance: 

From the library of John Lucius Dampier.

Associated names: 

Minato, Niccolò.
Stampiglia, Silvio, 1664-1725.
Dampier, John Lucius, former owner.

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