Signa (opera)
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Signa is an opera originally conceived in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen with a libretto by Gilbert A. A'Beckett, with revisions by H.A. Rudall and Frederic Edward Weatherly after Ouida, with an Italian translation by G.A. Mazzucato, first performed in a reduced three act version at the Teatro dal Verme, Milan on 12 November 1893. It was later given in a two act version at Covent Garden, London on 30 June 1894.
References
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the - Cowen, F. H., My Art and My Friends, London, Arnold, 1913
- Sadie, S. (ed.) (1980) The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, 5.
- Burton, N., Grove Music Online (ed. Macy, L.) <http://www.grovemusic.com>.
- Parker, C. J. (2007), unpublished Ph.D Thesis (University of Durham, U.K.): 'The Principal Works of Frederic H. Cowen (1852-1935)'.