Il ritorno di Columella da Padova
Subtitle: melodramma buffo in tre atti
By: musica del sig maestro Vincenzo Fioravante figlio e di altri autori
Contributors: Fioravanti, Vincenzo, 1799-1877; Cambiaggio, Carlo, 1798-1880, librettist; Bauer, Eduardo, composer; Grimaldo, Giuseppe, printer; John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: tip. civica di Giuseppe Grimaldo
Published: 1842
Place of publication: Venezia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 30
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Ritorno di Columella dagli studi di Padova
Notes: Original version with libretto by Andrea Passaro and music by Vincenzo Fioravante first performed as Il ritorno di Columella dagli studi di Padova, in Naples, at the Teatro Nuovo, 27 December 1837; this adaptation for northern Italy, with the libretto altered by Carlo Cambiaggio and recitatives and some new pieces composed by Eduardo Bauer, first performed in Milan, at the Teatro Re, 17 June 1842 and first performed in Venice 14 September 1842 as Il ritorno di Columella ossia Il pazzo per amore. See Loewenberg.

Date of publication inferred from date of first Venetian performance of this adaptation.

"Personaggi"--Title page verso; does not include performers.

Statement of responsibility from title page verso.

Loewenberg, Alfred.  Annals of opera, column 793