pasticcio
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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
The previous Italian operas had been works of little distinction, and some of them had even been pasticcio operas, as they were called, put together from songs by various composers.
From Handel by Dent, Edward J.
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