El rey pastor
Subtitle: drama para musica de representarse en el Real Coliseo del Buen-Retiro por orden de su Magestad Catholica el Rey Nuestro Señor D. Fernando VI
Contributors: Metastasio, Pietro, 1698-1782, librettist; Ferdinand VI, King of Spain, 1713-1759, dedicatee; Farinelli, 1705-1782; Mojados, Lorenzo Francisco, heirs, printer; Munck, Johann Carl, paper maker; Real Coliseo del Buen-Retiro (Madrid, Spain); Teatro Marsigli-Rossi (Bologna, Italy); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: En la Imprenta de los Herederos de Lorenzo Francisco Mojados
Published: 1757
Place of publication: En Madrid
Language: spa; ita
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Re pastore
Notes: Libretto for an opera seria in 3 acts.

" ... EL Rey Pastor, digna Produccion de mi siempre célebre Abate Pedro Metastasio"--P. [11]; "LA MUSICA es del Señor Don Antonio Mazoni, Maestro de Musica Modonés"--P. 25.

Text by P. Metastasio; first performed, at the Teatro Marsigli-Rossi, Bologna, 11 July 1757. See Grove music online (WWW site, 13 July 2009).

Added title page in Italian.

Imprint from colophon.

Last page is blank.

Letterpress coat of arms of Ferdinand VI of Spain on p. [5] (1st group).

Dedication (p. [11]) signed by C.B. Farinelli.

Signatures: pi1 A⁴ B² C-T⁴ (pi1 & A1 are blank).

"Personaggi"/"Personages" with named cast: p. [20] & [21].

Sartori, C. Libretti italiani, 19602

Italian and Spanish on facing pages.