MEYERBEER: Romilda e Costanza

MEYERBEER: Romilda e Costanza 19 July. Padua Text by G. Rossi. Two acts. Meyerbeer’s first Italian opera. Venice 8 October 1817, etc. In Italian also, Munich 8 November 1822. In Danish (translated by C. J. Boye and K. L. Rahbek ), Copenhagen 29 January 1822. (The date of 19 July 1818 for the first production at Padua , given by Fétis, Clément-Larousse , Riemann, etc., is not correct; see A. M. Z., Vol. xix, p.612; G. R. Kruse in Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft, Vol. i, p.404, while rectifying…