Edited by Ivano Bettin (2019)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary included pp. I-CI, 1-456
NR 141985
Piano vocal score available
CP 141987
After the Roman premiere of Olimpiade at the Teatro Tordinona in the Carnival of 1735, and despite the exacerbation of the illness that a few months later would lead him, very young, to his death, Pergolesi presented himself to the Neapolitan public with the new “commedeja pe’ mmuseca” Il Flaminio, on a libretto by Gennarantonio Federico, in the autumn of that same year.
The opera, the second of the season, was staged in the Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo, a place deputed – along with the Teatro dei Fiorentini and the Teatro della Pace – to the staging of comic operas, and won general applause.
Two main sources were used to produce the critical edition: a complete manuscript copy of the score, now preserved at the Archives of the Abbey of Montecassino, for the first two acts, and the autograph score preserved at the Library of the Conservatorio “San Pietro a Majella” in Naples, for the third act.
The edition is divided into two volumes and includes, in addition to the score, a historical introduction, some notes on the fortunes of the opera and the performers, a reproduction of the libretto of the first performance, a description of the Sources and the Critical Commentary.