pasticcio
Americannoun
plural
pasticciEtymology
Origin of pasticcio
1700–10; < Italian < Vulgar Latin pastīcium pasty, pie, derivative of Late Latin pasta; paste
Example Sentences
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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
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
It was then that Austria first put her finger into the Italian pasticcio, where she kept it so many centuries.
From Italian Journeys by Howells, William Dean
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