The cast list and role names are based on Gilardoni 1827 with full names from Ashbrook 1982, pp. 542–543, and Casaglia 2005. Ashbrook and Casaglia both say that Carlo Casaccia sang the borgomastro (mayor) and his son Raffaele Casaccia (also a bass-baritone) sang the role of Timoteo. These roles are one and the same in Gilardoni's libretto. According to Timms 1992, p. 750, Carlo Casaccia made his last appearance at the Teatro del Fondo in 1826. Gilardoni, Domenico (1827). Il borgomastro di Saardam, melodramma giocoso in due atti (libretto for 19 August 1827). Naples: Flautina. Ashbrook, William (1982). Donizetti and His Operas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN0-521-23526-X.
Weinstock 1963, p. 322. Weinstock, Herbert (1963). Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Pantheon Books. OCLC601625.
