Alessandro in Persia
Subtitle: melodrama per il Teatro di S. M. B.
By: di Francesco Vanneschi
Publisher: Printed by J. Chrichley, at the London Gazette, Charing Cross
Published: 1741
Place of publication: London
Language: eng; ita
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Operas; Librettos; Specimens
Work titles: Alessandro in Persia
Notes: Libretto for a pasticcio opera in 3 acts.

Without the music arranged by Baldassare Galuppi after his own music and works by Giuseppe Arena, Johann Adolf Hasse, Leonardo Leo, Giovanni Battista Lampugnani, Giovanni Battista Pescetti and Domenico Scarlatti; first performed in London at the King's Theatre, 31 October 1740. Cf. Stieger.

Includes title vignette, tail-pieces.

"Personaggi"--P. 2; includes performers; lists Il signor Monticelli in title role.

Not in Sonneck.

Last p. blank.

ESTC, T21195

Stieger.^^Opern-Lexicon, p. 34

In Italian, with English translation on facing pages.

From the collection of John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward.

Correction slips pinned to p. 22 and 23 comprising the last 8 lines of the 1st act, in English and Italian, with the 1st version still visible.

Pasted in later brown wrappers; in prefab, 23 cm.