Zemira e Azor
Subtitle: a new comic opera, in three acts : as performed at the King's Theatre, in the Hay-Market
By: the music by the most celebrated composer signor Gretry
Publisher: Rinted by W. Clindon, No. 4, Coventry-Cown, Hay-Market
Published: 1796
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 29
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Notes: Libretto by Jean-François Marmontel after Madame Leprince de Beaumont's La belle et la bête; without the music by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry; original opera first performed at Fontainebleau, 9 November 1771; this version first performed in London at the Haymarket Theatre, 23 July 1796. Cf. Grove music online; Loewenberg.

"Dramatis personæ"--P. [3] (1st count); includes performers; lists Signor Viganoni in role of Azore; lists Signora Banti in role of Zemira.

Not in Sonneck.

Opposite pages bear duplicate numbering; last p. blank.

ESTC, T177788

Loewenberg, A. Annals of opera, col. 320

Parallel English and Italian texts after the original French.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Sewn in later tan wrappers; in prefab, 22 cm.