The German popular play Atis, and the Venetian opera; a study of the conversion of operas into popular plays, 1675-1722
Subtitle: with special reference to the play Atis
By: by Mary Beare.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1938
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: fre
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Minato, Niccoló.; Bostel, Lucas von, -- 1649-1716.; Stumme prinz Atis; German drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Theater -- Austria -- Vienna -- History; Opera -- Italy; Opera -- Austria -- Vienna
Other titles: Atis
Notes: The ms. of̀ Atis", no. 13107 of the National library at Vienna ... ends with the note: "Finito d. 27ten mart 1708. M. Dorcheus̋. - p. 1.

List of libretti and haupt- und staatsaktionen: p. 73.

The comedy Atis is taken directly from a German "singspiel entitled Der hochmüthige, bestürzte und wieder-erhobene Croesus, the words of which were written by Lucas von Bostel, and which is a prose adaptation of an Italian opera, Creso, with libretto by Count Niccolò Minato, and music by Antonio Draghi.  The title of the comedy is given as Der stumme prinz Atis̋ and Der von Ciro gefangene Crösus. cf. p. 3-4, 43.

Bibliography: p. 74-77.