Day: July 29, 2013

Front facade of Houghton Library

What’s New: Italian opera seria manuscripts from the library of the Ducs de Luynes

The Harvard Theatre Collection recently purchased an interesting collection of manuscript 18th century opera arias at Sotheby’s. Owned by the Ducs de Luynes, and kept in their ancestral Château de Dampierre, some of these arias may have been in the D’Albert family since before the French Revolution. An intriguing provenance indeed, which raises many questions:…