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1 online resource (1 score (xix, 270 pages, 9 pages of plates)) : facsimiles. |
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notated music ntm rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
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Recent researches in the music of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 55 |
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Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573 |
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Recent researches in the music of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ; 55.
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Recent researches in music online. 2577-4573
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Comic opera in 3 acts. |
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Edited principally from: The marriage of Figaro : a comic opera in three acts as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden / partly selected from Mozart, partly composed, and the whole adapted to the English stage, and arranged from the score by Henry R. Bishop (London : Goulding, D'Almaine, Potter, 1819) (Library of Congress shelf mark M1503.B59 M52 1819z). |
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Includes introduction and critical report. |
| Summary |
"This volume provides the first modern edition of Henry Rowley Bishop's adaptation of Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro for Covent Garden in 1819. Bishop changed the original drastically. He set it in English (largely basing the text on Thomas Holcroft's The Follies of a Day), replaced recitative with spoken dialogue, reduced four acts to three, divested Count Almaviva of music and introduced Fiorello from Il barbiere di Siviglia to sing instead, cut over half the score, inserted twelve new pieces, and drew additional material from other operas by Mozart and Rossini. Although Bishop's adaptations have endured scholarly ridicule and neglect, they provide an intriguing window into operatic practice not only in early-nineteenth-century England but in continental Europe and the United States as well. They also serve as important predecessors to musical theater. Bishop's Figaro is not only of historical interest, as its spoken dialogue, shortened length, and reduced musical complexity would be ideal for theater companies and small college programs that wish to stage a version of the opera." -- Provided by publisher. |
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Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed January 28, 2019). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
ACT ONE: Duetto (Susann, Figaro): "Fourteen, sixteen, eighteen, twenty" -- Song (Figaro): " Count Almaviva's compound of evil" -- Song (Susanna): "The youth in his blooming array" -- Duetto (Susanna, Barbarina): "I've seen all your flirting!" -- Song (Cherubino): "Oh, this love!" -- Chorus: "Receive, noble master" -- Finale (Susanna, Barbarina, Marcellina, Cherubino, Figaro, Basil, Chorus): "Ah! my lord, to fearful dangers." |
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ACT TWO: Duetto (Susanna, Fiorello): "Ah! deign a kind reply" -- Song (Antonio): "In early life, I took a wife" -- Song (Countess): "Love! ever leave me" -- Duetto (Susanna, Countess): "How gently'" -- Song (Susanna): "Ne'er can the rose" -- Song (Susanna): "Come hither!" -- Song (Countess): "All these jealous doubts removing" -- Finale (Susanna, Countess, Marcellina, Fiorello, Antonio, Figaro, Sebastian, Basil): "The notary now requests to enter." |
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ACT THREE: The bolero -- Pastoral march -- Pas de Deux -- Melodramatic music previous to duetto -- Duetto (Susanna, Countess): "Oh! take this gift" -- Villagers march -- Song (Fiorello): "When love subdues the youthful heart" -- Song (Countless): "Aid me! ye pitying pow'rs!" -- Trio (Susanna, Figaro, Antonio): "Silence, silence, he may overhear us" -- Finale (Susanna, countess, Marcellina, Barbarina, Cherubino, Fiorello, Figaro, Antonio, Basil, Chorus): "Each doubt and fear now ending." |
| Subject |
Operas -- 19th century -- Vocal scores with piano.
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Figaro (Fictitious character) -- Drama.
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Opéras -- 19e siècle -- Partitions chant et piano.
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Figaro (Fictitious character)
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Operas -- Vocal scores with piano
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Drama
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Drama.
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Théâtre.
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| Added Author |
Fuhrmann, Christina, editor.
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Adaptation of (expression): Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791.
Nozze di Figaro.
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Adaptation of (expression): Holcroft, Thomas, 1745-1809.
Follies of a day.
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Adaptation of (work): Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de, 1732-1799.
Mariage de Figaro.
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| Added Title |
Marriage of Figaro |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bishop, Henry R. (Henry Rowley), 1786-1855 Marriage of Figaro.Vocal score Mozart's The marriage of Figaro. Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., [2012] (OCoLC)782927281 9780895797209 |
| ISBN |
9781987201178 (online) |
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1987201175 |
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9780895797209 (print) |
| Standard No. |
10.31022/N055 doi |
| Music No. |
N055 A-R Editions, Inc. |
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