pasticcio

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Ms. Graham said that she was delighted that the flexibility of the pasticcio form would allow her to sing Handel at the Met for the first time.

From New York Times • Feb. 24, 2014

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

For the moment Handel remained in the background; the next opera was a pasticcio, that is, an opera made up of favourite songs from various operas stuck into any convenient libretto.

From Handel by Dent, Edward J.