CIMAROSA, Domenico.

Il Matrimonio Segreto. Dramma Giocoso in due Atti ou Le Mariage Secret. Opéra Comique en deux Actes ... paroles françaises de Moline.

Paris, Imbault, [1814]. 2 vols., folio, pp. [4], 492 (continuous pagination); plate number 738; engraved music, with both Italian and French text; a very good copy in contemporary green glazed paper boards, rebacked with modern morocco, small stamp on title. A reissue of the first edition of 1802. With the early ownership signature of Camille Saint-Saëns on front endpaper of both volumes. Il Matrimonio Segreto in two acts with text by Giovanni Bertati (1735–1815) was based on The clandestine marriage by George Colman (1732–1794) and David Garrick (1717–1779). It was first performed on 7 February 1792 at the Burgtheater in Vienna, and was first given in this French translation (by P. L. Moline) at Ghent in 1793. The first Paris performance was sung in Italian, at the Théâtre-Italien on 10 May 1801. It was composed while Cimarosa was Kapellmeister to the Viennese Court and was such a success at its first performance that the whole opera had to be repeated after supper.This is ‘apart from Mozart, the only Italian opera buffa between Pergolesi and Rossini which is still in the repertory in Italy as well as in other countries’ (Loewenberg, Annals of Opera).OCLC records copies at Illinois, Princeton, Texas, Washington, Dallas, NYPL and Eastman School of Music. RISM C 2304 (different issues); Sonneck, Dramatic Music, 1908, p. 33.

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