• Digitale Sammlung

    Our digital collection continues to grow

    Since mid-May 2026, the Archivio Massimo collection has been available on our platform; it is one of the most important private collections of Italian opera music from the 18th and early 19th centuries.


    Link: https://dlib.dhi-roma.it 

    or  directly to the collection

  • Project Dance/Music digital

  • Our library is open to anyone

    Mondays to Fridays 9–19

  • Digitised opera scores from the holdings of roman princely families

    The project was mentioned on the occasion of the European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2017.
    Database PARTITURA research

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MUSIC HISTORY, New Release

Domenico Cimarosa, Le trame deluse (1786)

Domenico Cimarosa's musical comedy "Le trame deluse", first performed in Naples in 1786, enjoyed great success throughout Europe and was translated into numerous languages. No less a figure than Johann Wolfgang von Goethe adapted the opera in order to stage it at Weimar. Rossini regarded it as more significant than "Il matrimonio segreto", Cimarosa's most famous work. Set in 18th-century Naples, the  ...   


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