pasticcio

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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 pasticcio version by Musica Nuova ends with a satirical twist.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2012

In the following year he produced 'Piramo e Tisbe,' a pasticcio, which failed completely.

From The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. by Fuller-Maitland, J. A.