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pasticcio

[pa-stee-choh, pahs-teet-chaw] / pæˈsti tʃoʊ, pɑsˈtit tʃɔ /


NOUN
melange
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Bringing the nearly forgotten pasticcio form back to life was the idea of Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met, who enlisted Jeremy Sams to devise the work.

From New York Times Feb. 24, 2014

Fabio Biondi conducts the excellent period-instrument orchestra Europa Galante in a fiery, vivacious performance of a pasticcio opera that was popular in its day, then forgotten.

From New York Times Dec. 20, 2012

A pasticcio, recycling music from Vivaldi's earlier operas and those of his contemporaries, L'Oracolo in Messenia was first performed in 1738, and revised four years later.

From The Guardian Dec. 13, 2012

Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images First performed in Venice in 1732, L'Oracolo in Messenia is a pasticcio – a work assembled from existing music, not all of it, in this instance, Vivaldi's own.

From The Guardian Oct. 10, 2012

Carlyle has shewn p. 137great sagacity in guessing at the localities from the vague descriptions of contemporaries: and his short pasticcio of the battle is the best I have seen.

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright




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