Rienzi: the last of the tribunes
Subtitle: Grand tragic opera
By: by Richard Wagner. Translated by John P. Jackson ...
Contributors: Jackson, John P., 1848-1897; Northcott, Richard A., 1871-1931, Former owner; Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873; Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company
Publisher: Carl Rosa Opera Company
Published: 1879
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 62
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Opéras; Livrets
Other titles: Rienzi: the last of the tribunes. Grand tragic opera, by Richard Wagner. English version by John P. Jackson. With the overture and the principal airs of the opera
Work titles: Rienzi, der Letzte der Tribunen
Notes: Printer's name from title page verso.

Price from front cover: One shilling and sixpence.

With a cast list on p. [3].

Majority of text in two columns.

From p. [3]: Performed for the first time in England ... by the Carl Rosa Opera Company, at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, on the 27th of January, 1879.

Inside front cover, additional leaf between pages 10-[11], additional leaf at the end of text and back covers are advertisements.

Original German libretto by the composer based on E. Bulwer-Lytton's novel "Rienzi, the last of the Roman Tribunes" (1835) itself based on the life of Cola di Rienzo.

First performed on October 29th 1842 at the Königlich Sächsisches Hoftheater, Dresden.