Il Bacio
Subtitle: a new comic opera
By: written by Mr. Badini ; and set to music by Signor Vento ; as performed at the King's Theatre in the Hay-Market ...
Contributors: Badini, Carlo Francesco, approximately 1710-approximately 1800, librettist; Cadell, T. (Thomas), 1742-1802, bookseller; King's Theatre (London, England); John Milton and Ruth Neils Ward Collection (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand
Published: 1776
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 83
Subjects: Operas; Librettos
Work titles: Bacio
Notes: Libretto for a comic opera in three acts.

Gatherings signed *D and **D and paginated *25-*35, [*1] have been inserted between pp. 24 and 26; pages [*1], [25], and last page are blank.

First performed at the King's Theatre, London, 9 January 1776. See Oxford music online/Grove music online (WWWW site, 12 June 2009).

Signatures: a⁴ A-I⁴.

"Price One Shilling."

"Dramatis personæ" with named cast; names of ballet master, principal dancers, painter and machinist, and tailor: p. [3] (2nd group).

ESTC, T68798

Italian and English on facing pages; each language printed on the rectos and versos of each leaf.