January 1698 – 12 April 1782), better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈpjɛːtro metaˈstaːzjo]), was an Italian poet...

Angelica e Medoro is a 1720 serenata by Nicola Porpora to libretto by Metastasio, after Ludovico Ariosto. The opera, written to celebrate the birthday...

Angelica and Medoro was a popular subject for Romantic painters, composers and writers from the 16th until the 19th century. Angelica and Medoro are two...

de Sousa Carvalho to a libretto by Metastasio previously set by other composers [de]. The plot concerns how Angelica thwarts the noble Orlando and elopes...

libretto by Metastasio (3 acts, 1743) Catone in Utica, libretto by Metastasio (3 acts, 1743) Alessandro e Poro, libretto by Metastasio (3 acts, 1744)...

master entitled Angelica e Medoro. The text of this work was the first by the soon-to-be-famous Pietro Trapassi (known as Metastasio), who became a lifelong...

Luigi Romanelli, 1808, Milan) Angelica e Medoro ossia L'Orlando (opera seria, libretto by Gaetano Sertor from Pietro Metastasio, 1810, Turin) Abradate e Dircea...

Gli orti esperidi (The Gardens of the Hesperides) is a libretto by Metastasio set first in 1721 by Nicola Porpora, and performed 28 August 1721, at the...

in their inaudible language and forgetting everything of the world. Metastasio's opera libretto Artaserse references the River Lethe in one of Artabano's...

Pedro Metastasio, translation Semiramis reconhecida by Pedro Metastasio, translation José no Egypto by Pedro Metastasio, translation Angelica e Medoro...

dominant in art and literature. The celebrated opera librettist Pietro Metastasio (1698–1782), although he had his own differences with Arcadia, was a student...

La Calprenède 19 November 1719 Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo Angelica serenata   Metastasio, after Ludovico Ariosto 28 August 1720 Naples, Palazzo del Principe...

di Palma autumn 1736 Naples, Nuovo Temistocle dramma per musica 3 acts Metastasio carnival 1737 Rome, Tor di Nona Gismondo commedia per musica 3 acts Gennaro...

Marcello, and Léon Jehin conducting. Prato: 25 December 1902, Regio Teatro Metastasio with Ulderica Persichini as Mimì, Norma Sella as Musetta, Ariodante Quarti...

musicalize librettos by Pietro Metastasio. Among his early operas are Agrippina (1708), Arianna e Teseo (1714) and Angelica (1720). In 1726 he moved to Venice...

writers. The Rococo had also followers in Italy (Paolo Rolli, Pietro Metastasio) and Germany (Friedrich von Hagedorn, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, Johann...

pursue his love and sexual desires. For later writers such as Pietro Metastasio and Paolo Rolli, the myth teaches that gender is essential, in that the...

studies in Naples between 1721 and 1723, Metastasio wrote some libretti inspired by antiquity, played in Naples: Angelica (1720), Endimione, Gli Orti esperidi...

acts Andrea Leone Tottola 18 January 1823 Turin, Teatro Regio Based on Metastasio Gli sciti dramma per musica 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola 18 March 1823...

(Mozart). Mozart's last opera of his adolescence was set to a libretto by Metastasio. 1777 Il mondo della luna (Joseph Haydn). Last of three that Haydn set...

opening of a new opera theater in Pavia in 1773 (his first setting of Metastasio's libretto Demetrio). Other than a reputation for promiscuity recorded...

Freeman, "Mysliveček's Setting of the Aria 'Se cerca, se dice' from Metastasio's L'Olimpiade," in Il ciel non soffre inganni: Attorno al Demetrio di Mysliveček...

Gamerra (1743–1803) for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Lucio Silla (revised by Metastasio); Italian adaptation of The Magic Flute for Giuseppe Sarti: Medonte, re...