addressed to the Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, (“Eccellenza”, i.e. Carlo Visconti di Modrone), providing a list of all the singers and their parts for his forthcoming opera Lucrezia Borgia, reporting that the librettist Felice Romani has told him which singers are available at La Scala, assigning them their roles, and remarking that some of the minor parts could be filled by the better members of the chorus but that the others should be tenor and bass soloists ("...Due di queste seconde parti, potressimo scieglierle frà migliori coristi, ma le altre conviene che sieno Tenori, e Bassi...") 2 pages, 4to (c.25.3 x 21cm), Milan, 11 September 1833, very small tears to margins
addressed to the Director of the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, (“Eccellenza”, i.e. Carlo Visconti di Modrone), providing a list of all the singers and their parts for his forthcoming opera Lucrezia Borgia, reporting that the librettist Felice Romani has told him which singers are available at La Scala, assigning them their roles, and remarking that some of the minor parts could be filled by the better members of the chorus but that the others should be tenor and bass soloists ("...Due di queste seconde parti, potressimo scieglierle frà migliori coristi, ma le altre conviene che sieno Tenori, e Bassi...") 2 pages, 4to (c.25.3 x 21cm), Milan, 11 September 1833, very small tears to margins
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