Mercadante, Saverio EIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("SAVERIO MERCADANTE" AND "MERCADANTE"), TO SINGERS AND PUBLISHERS, ABOUT HIS OPERAS to the publisher Francesco Lucca (about Virginia, in 1850, lamenting Lucca's reluctance to publish the opera), the impresario Alessandro Lanari, and the singers Raffaele Carcano and Rosa Morandi (asking her about the tessitura of her voice, so that he can best write for her in their opera that autumn at La Scala: "...dinotandomi l'estensione della sua voce sillabando, e vocalizzando, per potermi ben regolare ne' pezzi Concertati, giacchè que' a solo..."), 11 pages, 4to and 8vo, with integral autograph address panels, Milan, Naples, Novara, 1822-1856, some browning, with seal-tears, some times affecting the text, (8)
Mercadante, Saverio EIGHT AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED ("SAVERIO MERCADANTE" AND "MERCADANTE"), TO SINGERS AND PUBLISHERS, ABOUT HIS OPERAS to the publisher Francesco Lucca (about Virginia, in 1850, lamenting Lucca's reluctance to publish the opera), the impresario Alessandro Lanari, and the singers Raffaele Carcano and Rosa Morandi (asking her about the tessitura of her voice, so that he can best write for her in their opera that autumn at La Scala: "...dinotandomi l'estensione della sua voce sillabando, e vocalizzando, per potermi ben regolare ne' pezzi Concertati, giacchè que' a solo..."), 11 pages, 4to and 8vo, with integral autograph address panels, Milan, Naples, Novara, 1822-1856, some browning, with seal-tears, some times affecting the text, (8)
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