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Opera Don Pelagio, Gasparina, music director - tenor voice, songstress - soprano SKU: PR.411410790 Opera Buffa in Two Acts. Composed by Franz Joseph Haydn. Edited by Karl Geiringer. Spiral. Opera. Score. With Standard notation. 96 pages. Theodore Presser Company #411-41079. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.411410790). ISBN 9781491109885. UPC: 680160087969. 8.5 x 11 inches. Key: D major. Text: Karl Geiringer. Karl Geiringer.A delightful 2-Act, 40-minute comic romp penned in 1766 at the beginning of Haydn's artistic career. Originally meant to be an "Intermezzo" given during intermissions of a three-act serious opera, it later stood on its own as an "opera buffa." It has four singing roles: Gasparina (The Songstress), a soprano; Apollonia (her stage-mother), a soprano or tenor; Don Pelagio ( Gasparina's music teacher ), a tenor: and Don Ettore (Gasparina's young lover ), a soprano. It also has a few non-singing roles which are not mentioned in the dramatis personae: A Baliff and some Porters, all of whom appear at the beginnning of Act II.