Floridant
Subtitle: an opera, as it was perform'd at the Kings Theatre for the Royal Accademy
By: compos'd by Mr. Handel
Contributors: Rolli, Paolo, 1687-1765, librettist; Carey, Henry, 1687?-1743, translator
Publisher: Publish'd by the author; sold by Iohn Young, musical instrument seller at the Dolphin & Crown at the west end of St. Pauls church ...
Published: 1726
Place of publication: London
Language: ita
Number of pages: 81
Subjects: Operas; Scores
Work titles: Floridante
Notes: Full score.

Opera in 3 acts.

On p. [3] : "A table of the songs in the opera call'd Floridant" and "A catalogue of vocal musick & of the best editions, which may be had where these are sold".

Publisher information on t.p. glued over original printing. Estimated publication date is from Smith & Humphries' Handel, a descriptive catalogue (2d ed.), p. 28, no. 4.

Caption titles are character names.

Additional center pagination throughout volume, "from the earliest edition of 'Apollo's feast', v. 1 [London : Walsh and Hare, 1726]". Original pagination in right-hand corner. From Smith & Humphries, 2nd ed.

Engraved throughout.

RISM A/I, H 219

Italian words; English words on p. 19-20: A favourite song in Floridant, the English words by H. Carey. "Transporting charmer" beneath "Finche lo strale".

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