pasticcio

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Fabio Biondi conducts the excellent period-instrument orchestra Europa Galante in a fiery, vivacious performance of a pasticcio opera that was popular in its day, then forgotten.

From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2012

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

On one occasion an old man sang quite glibly a tune which was in reality a pasticcio of three separate shanties all known to me.

From The Shanty Book, Part I, Sailor Shanties by Terry, Richard Runciman