Il Crociato in Egitto : Melodramma eroico in due atti

This book reproduces the Ricordi vocal score of Meyerbeer's last Italian opera (Milan, c. 1825). More than hardly any other opera of the first third of the nineteenth century, Il Crociato in Egitto (Venice, 1814) appears as work standing between the epochs. In its engagement Other the traditions of the melodramma, Meyerbeer exploited here to the full all the possibilities offered by the form, Otherout actually questioning its nature. Whereas Rossini in his Neapolitan operas had undertaken a ...