[Footnote 9: Arteaga's recipe for an opera buffa (Rivol., c. 15, III., p. 140.; Part II., p. 440) may be recognised in the majority of comic opera libretti.]
[Footnote 10: Goldoni, Mém., II., p. 226.]
[Footnote 13: Goethe, XIX., p. 451. Briefw. m. Zelter, II., p. 19.]
[Footnote 14: Goldoni, Mém., II., p. 305. Arteaga.]
[Footnote 15: Arteaga, Rivol., c. 13, II., p. 298; Part II. p. 263. Manfredini, Difesa d. Mas. Mod., p. 194. Mattei, Rif. del Teatro vor Metastasio, Opp. III., p. 37.]
[Footnote 16: Laborde, Essai, III., p. 198.]
[Footnote 17: Arteaga, c. 15, III., p. 138; Part II., p. 409.]
[Footnote 18: Burney, Reise, I., p. 229.]
[Footnote 19: Sonnleithner has furnished me with a book of the words, published in Vienna.]
[Footnote 20: Castil-Blaze, L'Opéra Ital., p. 242.]
[Footnote 21: Director Franz Hauser possesses the copy of a score of the first act as far as the beginning of the finale, with German words, in which the music has undergone numerous alterations, especially with a reference to the stronger orchestras of the present day. It is not known by whom this arrangement was undertaken.]
[Footnote 22: Schubart, Teutsch. Chron., 1775, p. 267. Burney, Reise, II., p. 109. Mozart met her again in 1789, in Dresden, where she died at an advanced age.]
[Footnote 23: Arteaga, Riv. del Teatro, 15, III., p. 143; Part II., p. 412.]
[Footnote 24: Arteaga, Riv. del Teatro, c. 15, III-, p. 415.]
[Footnote 25: One or two less important echoes of "Figaro" are also to be found.]
[Footnote 26: Rudhart, Gesch. d. Oper zu München, I., p. 159.]
THE last opera of the series we have been considering is the festival opera, "Il Re Pastore," composed in honour of the Archduke Maximilian, at Salzburg, in 1775, to the text of Metastasio (208 K.).
The characters and plot are as follows:[1]--
Aminta, pastorello, amante d' Elisa, che, ignoto a se stesso, si scuopre poi l' unico legittimo erede del regno di Sidone.
Elisa, nobile ninfa di Fenicia, dell' antica stirpe di Cadmo, amante d' Aminta.
Tamiry principessa fuggitiva, figliuola del tiranno Stratone; in abito di pastorella, amante di Agenore.
Agenore, nobile di Sidone, amico di Alessandro, amante di Tamiri.
Alexander having conquered Sidon and slain the tyrant Strabo, determines to place on the throne Abdalonymus,[2] son of the last rightful king, who has been secretly brought up as a shepherd under the name of Aminta, by a faithful dependent of his father.