Don Pasquale
Subtitle: a comic opera, in three acts
By: the music by Donizetti ; performed at Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket
Contributors: Anelli, Angelo, 1761-1820; Donizetti, Gaetano, 1797-1848, librettist; Ruffini, Giovanni, 1807-1881, librettist; Reynoldson, Thomas H. (Thomas Herbert), 1808?-1888, tr; Crisp, Clement, former owner; Her Majesty's Theatre (London, England); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: G. Stuart
Published: 1856
Place of publication: London
Language: ita; eng
Translated from: ita
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Don Pasquale
Notes: Libretto by Gaetano Donizetti and Giovanni Ruffini after Angelo Anelli, Ser Marc'Antonio; first performed in Paris at the Théâtre Italien, 3 January 1843; first performed in London at Her Majesty's Theatre, 29 June 1843; English translation by Thomas H. Reynoldson. Cf. Loewenberg.

Includes title vignette featuring coat of arms of United Kingdom.

"Argument": p. [iii]-iv.

"Dramatis personæ": p. [v]; includes performers, listing Piccolomini as Norina; Piccolomini performed at Her Majesty's Theatre beginning in 1856. Cf. Enciclopedia dello spettacolo.

Loewenberg, A.  Annals of opera, col. 827

Italian words with English translation on facing pages.