Il pesceballo = The fish-ball / Italian libretto by Francis James Child ; English translation by James Russell Lowell ; music by Maestro Rossibelli-Donimozarti ; recitatives by John Knowles Paine ; transcription and adaptation by Eric Thomas Knechtges ; Mary Ellen Brown, historical impresaria (editor).

Format
Musical score
Language
Italian
Published/​Created
[Bloomington Indiana?] : Mary Ellen Brown, c2008.
Description
1 vocal score (v, 133 p.) ; 28 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)

Details

Subject(s)
Operas—Vocal scores with piano [Browse]
Related name
Notes
  • Pasticcio with Italian text based on the Harvard University anecdote and comic ballad "The lay of the one fishball" with music consisting of pre-existing opera excerpts by Donizetti, Rossini, Mozart, and Bellini.
  • For voices with piano acc.
  • Italian words, also printed as text with English translation, p. 11-21.
  • The acc. CD contains a revival of Il pesceballo that took place, Aug.3-4, 2008, at the Great Hall of Trinity Episcopal church, Bloomington, Indiana. All performers were students from Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. The performance was acc. by a piano quintet.
Other title(s)
Fish-ball
OCLC
276567782
RCP
C - S

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