La serva padrona
Subtitle: comedia in due atti = La soubrette maitresse : comédie en deux actes
Contributors: Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista, 1710-1736, composer; David, Michel-Antoine, 1706?-1769, bookseller; Nelli, Jacopo Angelo, 1673-1767; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Chez David .... , Quai des Augustins, au Saint-Esprit
Published: 1746
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 43
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Other titles: Soubrette maitresse
Work titles: Serva padrona
Notes: Libretto for an intermezzo in 2 acts.

Text by G.A. Federico, based on J.A. Nelli's play of the same name; music by G.B. Pergolesi. See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWW site, 15 June 2009).

First performed in Naples, at the Teatro S. Bartolomeo, 5 September 1733 between the acts of Pergolesi's opera, Il prigioniero superbo; first performed in Paris, 4 October 1746 (venue unknown).

Probably the first Paris ed.: approved 27 September 1746 (p. 43).

Signatures: A-B¹² (B11 & B12 blank).

"Le prix est de douze sols."

"Acteurs"/"Personaggi" without named cast: p. [2]-[3] (1st group).

Text in French and Italian of facing pages.