pasticcio
Americannoun
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pasticci
plural
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Etymology
Origin of pasticcio
1700–10; < Italian < Vulgar Latin pastīcium pasty, pie, derivative of Late Latin pasta; see paste
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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
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
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
What did it matter if the work were a spurious thing, a pasticcio, a poor victim which had been pulled this way and that, changed, cut, added to?
From The Way of Ambition by J. H. Gardner Soper
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