Tom Jones
(1765, rev.1766)Opera in three acts in the version edited by Nicolas McGegan and Adrian Salter (1971, pub 1980)
Duration: 150'
Music Text
Libretto by Antoine Alexandre Poinsinet after the novel by Henry Fielding, translated by Adrian Salter (E)
Scoring
2S,M,2T,Bar,BBar,speaker,3T(=chorus)
0.2.0.1-2.0.0.0-strings-continuo
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Opera
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Availability
World Premiere
27/02/1765
Théâtre de l'Hotel de Bourgogne, Paris
Comedie-Italienne
World premiere of version
27/10/1971
ADC Theatre, Cambridge
Nicholas Reynold, director / Cambridge University Opera Society / Nicholas McGegan
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