The Complete Opera Book and Mozart's "Il Seraglio", occupying pp. 851–901. After 1929 it was enlarged to include Verdi's "Simone Boccanegra", Boito's "Nerone", Alban Berg's "Wozzeck", Puccini's "Turandot", Rossini's "La Cenerentola", Mozart's "Così fan tutte", Jaromir Weinberger's "Schwanda the Bagpiper" and Vaughan Williams's "Hugh the Drover" (pp. 901–930). The English 1935 imprint included Bonavia's notes on Rossini's "L'Italiana in Algeri", Rimsky-Korsakov's "Snegourochka" and two operas of Ildebrando Pizzetti: parts of the former supplement had by now been incorporated into the main text, and the overall page-count before index was now 945 pages. While no amount of enlargement could possibly have made the work literally
Adina (opera) Adina (opera) Adina is an operatic farsa in one act by Gioachino Rossini with a libretto by Marchese Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini. The opera develops the popular theme of the "abduction from the seraglio". "Adina" was commissioned in 1818 by Diego Ignazio de Pina Manique, police superintendent of Lisbon and inspector of Portuguese theatres. The plot is very similar to that of Francesco Basili's 1819 opera, "Il califfo e la schiava", for which the libretto was written by Felice Romani, and some passages occur in both librettos - a mystery which has not yet been unravelled. The opera was intended as a