pasticcio

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Bringing the nearly forgotten pasticcio form back to life was the idea of Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met, who enlisted Jeremy Sams to devise the work.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014

A pasticcio, recycling music from Vivaldi's earlier operas and those of his contemporaries, L'Oracolo in Messenia was first performed in 1738, and revised four years later.

From The Guardian • Dec. 13, 2012

Photograph: Pascal Guyot/AFP/Getty Images First performed in Venice in 1732, L'Oracolo in Messenia is a pasticcio – a work assembled from existing music, not all of it, in this instance, Vivaldi's own.

From The Guardian • Oct. 10, 2012

The pasticcio version by Musica Nuova ends with a satirical twist.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2012

The preface is a piratical pasticcio; the verbose notes are from the most accessible books; the portraits, very unequal in point of execution, I believe to be chiefly copies of prints—not d'apr�s des tableaux originaux.

From Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc by Various