Rosita (Schleiffarth, George)

Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	2 Acts
First Publication	1885 (selections) – Chicago: composer 1887 – Chicago: E.K. Bowen (& Schleiffarth) (vocal score, libretto)
Genre Categories	Comic operas; Theatrical Works; Operas; For voices, mixed chorus, orchestra; Scores featuring the voice; Scores featuring mixed chorus; Scores featuring the orchestra; For voices and chorus with orchestra; English language

Sheet Music

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Schissel (2013/12/14)

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Publisher. Info.	(15) Popular Selections from Geo. Schleiffarth’s New Comic Opera Rosita. Chicago: Geo. Schleiffarth & Co., 1885.
Copyright	Public Domain [tag/del/mrg]
Misc. Notes	Geo. Schleiffarth, "the trade supplied via" S. Brainard & Sons, Chicago.
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Work Title	Rosita
Alternative. Title	Boston and Banditti, an original comic opera in two acts ; also "Cupid and Cupidity"
Composer	Schleiffarth, George
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IGS 7
Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's	2 Acts
First Performance.	1884-4-30 Brooklyn, NY, Park Theatre
First Publication.	1885 (selections) – Chicago: composer 1887 – Chicago: E.K. Bowen (& Schleiffarth) (vocal score, libretto)
Librettist	Harry Bache Smith (song lyrics) ; Matthew Woodward (book)
Language	English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Romantic
Piece Style	Romantic
Instrumentation	Voices, chorus, orchestra (theatre orchestra?)

Premiere information and a description of plot from John Franceschina, Harry B. Smith: A Biography (2003), pp.17–20. (Seems to imply a chorus.)

Vocal score can be found here -- WorldCat.

Original accompaniment not known (theatre orchestra or piano?)