Composition Year | 1872 |
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Genre Categories | Fairy operas; Theatrical Works; Operas; |
Work Title | Ali Baba |
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Alternative. Title | Os Quarenta Ladrões ; Opérette-féerie |
Composer | Mesquita, Henrique Alves de |
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. | IHM 1 |
Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1872 |
First Performance. | 1873 poss.? |
First Publication. | 1878 |
Librettist | Eduardo Garrido (1842–1912) |
Language | Portuguese |
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Romantic |
Piece Style | Romantic |
Instrumentation | voices, chorus?, orchestra |
"Ali-Baba. Zig-zig-zig-tong ; célèbre tango extraite de l'opérette-féerie."
A 2013 book gives "Eduardo" for "E." Garrido... "The Diario de Rio de Janeiro condemned the Fénix Drámatica company for putting on Eduardo Garrido's version of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves at the Teatro Lirico on 25 March 1873..." - Kraay, "Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889", p.282. (The same book has a couple of other mentions of H.A. Mesquita. Not positive whether this one refers to a version with or without Mesquita's music; I'd assume with, but...)