Paolo Antonio Rolli (13 June 1687 – 20 March 1765) was an Italian Rococo librettist, poet and translator. Paolo Rolli was born in Rome, Italy and like...

Polifemo is an opera in three acts by Nicola Porpora with a libretto by Paolo Rolli. The opera is based on a combination of two mythological stories involving...

(1645–1727), Italian painter and engraver John Rolli, American college men's ice hockey coach Paolo Rolli (1687–1765), Italian librettist and poet Rollin...

Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli is a UNESCO World Heritage Site which includes a number of streets and palaces in the center...

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

directly from an original work by Shakespeare was Rosalinda (1744) by Paolo Rolli. His source of inspiration was As you like it and it was the only theatrical...

Polifemo. Both the cognoscenti and the public adored him. The librettist Paolo Rolli, a close friend and supporter of Senesino, commented: "Farinelli has...

masquerade and the (homo-)erotic aspects of it. Others like Metastasio or Paolo Rolli more focused on the failed struggle to conceal the masculinity of the...

Masson de Pezay, Évariste de Parny, Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray, Paolo Rolli, Pietro Metastasio, Friedrich von Hagedorn, Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim...

Arianna in Nasso is a 1733 opera by Nicola Porpora to a libretto by Paolo Rolli, chief conductor of the Opera of the Nobility. The choice of the subject...

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

1623). The fifth chapel on the right has a tomb monument dedicated to Paolo Rolli (1687 – 1765), a writer and translator. The third chapel has a fresco...

Astarto is an opera in three acts by Giovanni Bononcini to a libretto by Paolo Rolli, after Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati. It was premiered in January...

Arcadians such as Gian Vincenzo Gravina and Paolo Rolli used satire to attack the excesses of Marino's followers; Rolli also edited an anthology of Italian satire...

Giuseppe or Gioseffo Maria Rolli (1645-1727), who painted the figures. He painted the ceiling (1695) for the church of San Paolo Maggiore, Bologna. He died...

own use, generally provided from Italy. Initially the librettist Paolo Antonio Rolli was the "Italian secretary of the Academy"; he was replaced by Nicola...

principally small literary forms. The poets associated with style are Paolo Rolli, Pietro Metastasio, Friedrich von Hagedorn, P. J. Bernard, Johann Wilhelm...

composed by George Frideric Handel in 1726 for the Royal Academy of Music. Paolo Rolli's libretto is based on the story of Ortensio Mauro's La superbia d'Alessandro...

from a collection called "Di canzonette e di cantate librue due" by Paolo Rolli, published in London in 1727. Glenn Paton, John (1991). "26 Italian Songs...

Festival of Hymenaeus) is a serenata by Nicola Porpora, with a libretto by Paolo Rolli. It was premiered at the King's Theatre on 4 May 1736 by the Opera of...

magazine and comic miscellany. pp. 316–317. George E. Dorris (2014-07-24). Paolo Rolli and the Italian Circle in London, 1715–1744. De Gruyter. pp. 56–7....

Royal Academy of Music (1719) . The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Francesco Briani's Isacio tiranno, set by Antonio Lotti in...

person very bad, and she makes frightful mouths. Poet and librettist Paolo Rolli described her as "a copy of Faustina with a better voice and better intonation...

about Gaius Mucius Scaevola. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli, adapted from a text by Silvio Stampiglia. The music for the first...

University Presses. ISBN 978-0-918016-65-2. George E. Dorris (2014-07-24). Paolo Rolli and the Italian Circle in London, 1715–1744. De Gruyter. pp. 301–....

Massimi, Benedetto Menzini, librettist Pietro Metastasio, Francesco Redi Paolo Rolli, and linguist Clotilde Tambroni, among others. The famous composer George...

donna, Anna Strada, for his 1729 season. One of Handel's librettists, Paolo Rolli, wrote in a letter (the original is in Italian) that Handel said that...

break with other members of the company, especially Paolo Rolli, Goupy went to speak to Rolli's brother to try to mend fences, without success. The pair...

Heritage Site Genoa: Le Strade Nuove and the system of the Palazzi dei Rolli. The rich art collection inside, along with the galleries of Palazzo Bianco...

finishing his doctoral dissertation on poet, librettist, and translator Paolo Antonio Rolli (1687-1765) and the Italian circle in London. He completed his doctoral...