Belisario
Subtitle: tragedia lirica
By: del Sig. Salvatore Cammarano ; posta in musica dal maestro Cavale. Gaetano Donizetti ; ridotta per pianoforte da T. Ricordi
Contributors: Cammarano, Salvatore, 1801-1852, librettist; Marchionni, Luigi, author; Ricordi, Tito, arranger of music; Schenk, Eduard von, 1788-1841
Published: 1836
Language: ita
Number of pages: 179
Subjects: Drama; Operas; Vocal scores with piano
Work titles: Belisario
Notes: For voices and piano; originally for voices and orchestra.

Opera in 3 acts.

Libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of Eduard von Schenk's Belisarius. Source: Grove Music Online.

Date from plate numbers as listed in: Laterza, A.Z. Il catalogo numerico Ricordi 1857, 1984 ; v. 1, p. 309-311.

Premiered in Venice, February 1836. Source: Oxford Music Online.

Score has two sets of page numbers: some pieces have individual numbering in the upper corner. Whole volume pagination appears in lower corner.

Italian words.

Includes cast list and table of contents in Italian.

Staff notation.

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BYU copy bound in brown with label on center front: "Belisar. Klavier-Auszug." Cover is worn around edges, especially top middle and left middle. Bears three labels on spine and one on upper left of front (blank). Spine labels read: "28" (faded) ; "Belisar 1" ; "...atstheat..." (incomplete). Back cover bears two labels near the spine: "Don" ; "Archiv..." (incomplete).

BYU copy has handwritten "709" in box on upper left of title page. Stamped in circular black ink border: "Knigl theater-bibliothek" on title page, and pages 3 and 5. Stamped in blue circular border with eagle in center: "Bibliothek der General-Intendantur dur Königl, Schauspiele, Berlin (?)" on title page, and pages 89 (faint), 90-91, and 180.

BYU copy has pencil markings throughout. Some pieces have handwritten (pencil and ink) translations of the lyrics into German (?): pages 44-57, 65-98, 115-132, 137-159, and 171.