La Partenope fiesta
Subtitle: que se hizo en el Real Palacio de Mexico el dia de San Phelipe, por los años del Rey nuestro señor don Phelipe V. (que Dios guarde)
Contributors: León, Nicolás, 1859-1929; Alarca Vidal y Valda, Joseph Ignacio, 1859-1929
Publisher: Por los Herederos de la Viuda de Miguel de Ribera
Published: 1714
Place of publication: En Mexico
Language: spa
Number of pages: 197
Subjects: CSAIP
Notes: Text in Italian and Spanish on facing pages.

Translated from Italian to Spanish and set to music by Manuel Zumaya.  The Italian version was first performed in Naples, 1699. This work does not include the music.

Beristáin (v. III, p. 325) dates this 1711, which is probably the date of performance. Medina records the press as active between 1714 and 1732.

The "earlier" so-called 1711 printing (Medina, México, 2306, after Beristáin) is probably spurious.

Although it used to be thought that La Partenope was "the first opera of any sort produced on American soil" (R. Stevenson, Music in Mexico), it is now known that it was anteceded by at least ten years by Tomás Torrejo⁸n y Velasco's La púrpua de la rosa, performed in Lima in 1701.

Signatures: A-D⁸ E-V⁴ (A1, V4 versos blank)

Medina, J.T. México, 9012.

Provenance of John Carter Brown Library copy: Nicolás León: bookplate; Joseph Ygnacio de Alarca Vidal y Valda: inscription on front fly leaf.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary vellum.