BRUSA: Le Statue

BRUSA: Le Statue 27 December. Venice, S. Sam. Text by G. B. Brusa (the son of the composer). Three acts. Repeated Rome, T. Valle Carnival 1758; Trieste Carnival 1758; Turin, T. Carignano Autumn 1763. In Italian also Nuremberg 26 January 1763 and probably Potsdam 29 July 1768. The score of this dramma giocoso per musica by the rather unknown Venetian composer was discovered by A. Delia Corte and is analysed in his L’Opera comica italiana nell’ ’700, Vol. i, pp.126–135.