Semiramide Rossini Third Opera Festival Program 1883 Cincinnati Music Hall Rare

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Combined Shipping offered (no extra postage on multiple purchases).  Offered is an original opera festival program containing the complete text of "Semiramide: A Tragic Opera in Two Acts - In Italian and English" by Gioachino Rossini (Composer) and Gaetano Rossi (Libretto) with "The Music of the Favourite Melodies."  The program cover is headlined "Compiled from the OFFICIAL Announcements - Libretto - Programmes and Diagrams - Semiramide - Third Opera Festival, Music Hall - 1883 -  Cincinnati [Ohio]." A left-stapled soft cover measuring 6-7/8" by nearly 10-1/2" and containing 36 pages including front and rear covers.  Please note that Gaetano Rossi (Libretto) is not mentioned in the program.  Eight quarter pages to the first several pages in the program list the opera performances - Verdi's La Traviata, Meyerbeer's L'Africaine, Belli's La Sonnambula, Rossini's William Tell, Rossini's Semiramide; Wagner's Flying Dutchman; Mozart's Don Giovanni; and Wagner's Lohengrin - for each of the eight days at Music Hall, Cincinnati, Ohio (from Monday Evening, January 29th [1883] to Saturday Evening, February 3d [1883]) as well as the names of the Characters and Vocal Performers. The first several pages also contain charming, historical advertisements, including a full-page steel engraving of the Wm. G. Fischer & Co. Building ("Union Works: Stove Range & Furnace"); Diagram of the Parquette or Auditorium (at 211 Vine Street); separate biographies of Joseph R. Peebles' Sons' Life of Verdi, Bellini, Rossini, Mozart, and Wagner; businesses offering tickets for general or reserved seating. The title page of the opera beginning on page 17 reads "Rossini's Semiramide, A Tragic Opera In Two Acts, In Italian and English. Contains the Music of the Favorite Melodies" following with The Plot, Dramatis Personae, length and times of the performance, and then the opera itself in two acts (Italian and English). Condition: covers are light to moderately soiled in places; short closed tear along upper outer fold; small corner chip to rear cover; light, minor vertical fold down the middle of the program. Exceptionally rare.